diff --git a/CODEOWNERS b/CODEOWNERS
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..00cd7bd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CODEOWNERS
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#ECCN:Open Source
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3bdce842..107a7e89 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["build", "setuptools>=62", "wheel", "setuptools_scm>=6.2"]
+requires = ["build", "setuptools", "setuptools_scm"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
 local_scheme = "no-local-version"  # require pypi supported versions always
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ name="tabcmd"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 description="A command line client for working with Tableau Server."
 authors = [{name="Tableau", email="github@tableau.com"}]
-license = {file = "LICENSE"}
+license = "MIT"
+license-files = ["LICENSE"]
 readme = "res/README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"  # https://devguide.python.org/versions/
 classifiers = [
@@ -43,17 +44,10 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "appdirs",
-    "doit",
-    "ftfy",
-    "pyinstaller_versionfile",
-    "pytest-order",
     "requests>=2.25,<3.0",
-    "setuptools_scm",
-    "types-appdirs",
-    "types-mock",
-    "types-requests",
-    "types-setuptools",
-    "tableauserverclient==0.37",
+    # pinned to 81 so the license_checker can use pkg_resources
+    "setuptools<81; python_version >= '3.12'",
+    "tableauserverclient==0.40",
     "urllib3",
 ]
 [project.optional-dependencies]
@@ -65,9 +59,18 @@ test = [
     "pytest-cov",
     "pytest-order",
     "pytest-runner",
-    "requests-mock>=1.0,<2.0"]
+    "requests-mock>=1.0,<2.0",
+    "types-appdirs",
+    "types-mock",
+    "types-requests",
+    "types-setuptools",
+    # these last three are required for the versioning step
+    "doit",
+    "pyinstaller_versionfile",
+    "setuptools_scm"
+]
 localize = ["doit", "ftfy"]
-package = ["pyinstaller==5.13", "doit"]
+package = ["doit", "pyinstaller==5.13"]
 [project.urls]
 repository = "https://github.com/tableau/tabcmd"
 [project.scripts]
diff --git a/tabcmd/execution/localize.py b/tabcmd/execution/localize.py
index 1a8d3d2d..cc8baf1c 100644
--- a/tabcmd/execution/localize.py
+++ b/tabcmd/execution/localize.py
@@ -83,13 +83,7 @@ def _load_language(current_locale, domain, logger):
 
 
 def _get_default_locale():
-    # c:\dev\tabcmd\tabcmd\execution\localize.py:85: DeprecationWarning 'locale.getdefaultlocale' is deprecated
-    # see test_localize for details
-    import logging
-
-    logging.captureWarnings(True)
-    current_locale, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
-    logging.captureWarnings(False)
+    current_locale = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, None)
     current_locale = _validate_lang(current_locale)
     return current_locale
 
diff --git a/tabcmd/version.py b/tabcmd/version.py
index e6e2d0f1..f7c977ca 100644
--- a/tabcmd/version.py
+++ b/tabcmd/version.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-# when we drop python 3.8, this could be replaced with this lighter weight option
-# from importlib.metadata import version, PackageNotFoundError
-from pkg_resources import get_distribution, DistributionNotFound
+from importlib.metadata import version as get_version, PackageNotFoundError
 
 try:
-    version = get_distribution("tabcmd").version
-except DistributionNotFound:
+    version = get_version("tabcmd")
+except PackageNotFoundError:
     version = "2.0.0"
     pass