diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 6f1d19d..a2f8d68 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 History
 -------
+0.2.1 (Unreleased)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Added ``pyproject.toml`` and uv install instructions while maintaining
+  Python 2.7 compatibility.
 0.2.0 (21 Nov 2018)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 - ``xmljson`` command line script converts from XML to JSON (@tribals)
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 24d8ed5..eb9a61a 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -200,10 +200,14 @@ The `Parker`_ convention absorbs the root element by default.
 Installation
 ------------
 
-This is a pure-Python package built for Python 2.7+ and Python 3.0+. To set up::
+This is a pure-Python package built for Python 2.7+ and Python 3.0+. To install
+using pip or the ``uv`` package manager::
 
     pip install xmljson
 
+    # or with uv
+    uv pip install xmljson
+
 
 Simple CLI utility
 ------------------
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc7b60c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools<45", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "xmljson"
+version = "0.2.1"
+description = "Converts XML into JSON/Python dicts/arrays and vice-versa."
+readme = "README.rst"
+requires-python = ">=2.7"
+authors = [{name = "S Anand", email = "root.node@gmail.com"}]
+license = {file = "LICENSE"}
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 2",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+xml2json = "xmljson.__main__:main"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+test = ["lxml", "pytest"]
+
+[tool.uv]
+managed = true
diff --git a/xmljson/__init__.py b/xmljson/__init__.py
index 87f8216..dfdea54 100644
--- a/xmljson/__init__.py
+++ b/xmljson/__init__.py
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@
 
 import sys
 from collections import Counter, OrderedDict
+
 try:
     from lxml.etree import Element
-except ImportError:
+except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover - fallback for environments without lxml
     from xml.etree.cElementTree import Element
 
 __author__ = 'S Anand'
 __email__ = 'root.node@gmail.com'
-__version__ = '0.2.0'
+__version__ = '0.2.1'
 
 # Python 3: define unicode() as str()
 if sys.version_info[0] == 3: