diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 24f73cf1f0..1e085ba70a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ Oliver Bestwalter
 Pablo Galindo
 Paul Moore
 Paweł Adamczak
+Peter Kolbus
 Philip Thiem
 Pierre-Jean Campigotto
 Pierre-Luc Tessier Gagné
diff --git a/docs/changelog/1763.feature.rst b/docs/changelog/1763.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..661560edaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/1763.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Relax importlib requirement to allow 3.0.0 or any newer version - by
+:user:`pkolbus`
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 7ac7adecb5..3b74a609d7 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ install_requires =
     toml>=0.9.4
     virtualenv!=20.0.0,!=20.0.1,!=20.0.2,!=20.0.3,!=20.0.4,!=20.0.5,!=20.0.6,!=20.0.7,>=16.0.0
     colorama>=0.4.1 ;platform_system=="Windows"
-    importlib-metadata>=0.12,<3;python_version<"3.8"
+    importlib-metadata>=0.12;python_version<"3.8"
 python_requires = >=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*
 
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