diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d672a910..18bc4fe9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ requires = ["requests", "hatchling"]
 build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [tool.hatch.version]
-path = "wgpu/__init__.py"
+path = "wgpu/_version.py"
 
 [tool.hatch.build.targets.sdist]
 packages = ["wgpu"]