diff --git a/.github/environment.yml b/.github/environment.yml
index c12722d8..5a4905c7 100644
--- a/.github/environment.yml
+++ b/.github/environment.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: testenv
 channels:
   - conda-forge
 dependencies:
-  - scikit-build
+  - scikit-build-core
   - numpy
   - compilers
   - pybind11
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index bc5c8969..65f01ff3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -35,60 +35,30 @@ jobs:
       with:
         repository: PDAL/python-plugins
         path: ./plugins
+        ref: main
 
     - name: Setup micromamba
       uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
       with:
         miniforge-variant: Mambaforge
         miniforge-version: latest
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
         use-mamba: true
         auto-update-conda: true
         environment-file: .github/environment.yml
 
     - name: Install python-pdal
-      run: pip install .
+      run: |
+        pip install -vv . --no-deps --no-build-isolation
 
     - name: Install python-pdal-plugins
       working-directory: ./plugins
-      run: pip install .
+      run: pip install -vv . --no-deps --no-build-isolation
 
     - name: Test
       run: |
-        export PDAL_DRIVER_PATH=$(python -c "import os, skbuild; print(os.path.join('plugins', skbuild.constants.SKBUILD_DIR(), 'cmake-build'))")
+        export PDAL_DRIVER_PATH=$(python -m pdal --pdal-plugin-path)
+        echo $PDAL_DRIVER_PATH
         pdal --drivers --debug
         py.test -v test/
 
-    - name: Build source distribution
-      if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' && matrix.python-version == '3.11'
-      run: python setup.py sdist
-
-    - name: Upload distribution(s)
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-      with:
-        name: ${{ matrix.os }}-py${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        path: ./dist/*
-
-  publish:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: [build]
-
-    steps:
-    - name: Download distributions
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-      with:
-        path: ./artifacts
-
-    - name: Move artifacts to dist
-      run: |
-        mkdir dist
-        find ./artifacts -type f -exec mv {} ./dist \;
-        tree ./dist
-
-    - name: Publish package
-      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
-      if: github.event_name == 'release' && github.event.action == 'published'
-      with:
-        user: __token__
-        password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }}
-        packages_dir: ./dist
-        verbose: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6b55754a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+name: Release
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types:
+      - published
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  pypi-publish:
+    name: Upload release to PyPI
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment:
+      name: release
+      url: https://pypi.org/p/pdal-plugins
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write  # IMPORTANT: this permission is mandatory for trusted publishing
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: true
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Setup micromamba
+      uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
+      with:
+        miniforge-variant: Mambaforge
+        miniforge-version: latest
+        use-mamba: true
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        auto-update-conda: true
+        environment-file: .github/environment.yml
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      shell: bash -l {0}
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install build pipx twine
+        pipx run build --sdist
+
+    - name: Publish package distributions to PyPI
+      if: github.event_name == 'release' && github.event.action == 'published'
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b45f0c35..8c2860ed 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.11.0)
-project(pdal-python)
+project(pdal-python VERSION)
 
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
@@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ endif()
 find_package(Python3 COMPONENTS Interpreter ${DEVELOPMENT_COMPONENT} NumPy REQUIRED)
 
 # find PDAL. Require 2.1+
-find_package(PDAL 2.5 REQUIRED)
+find_package(PDAL 2.6 REQUIRED)
 
 # find PyBind11
 find_package(pybind11 REQUIRED)
 
 set(extension "libpdalpython")
 pybind11_add_module(${extension} MODULE
-    pdal/PyArray.cpp
-    pdal/PyPipeline.cpp
-    pdal/StreamableExecutor.cpp
-    pdal/libpdalpython.cpp
+    src/pdal/PyArray.cpp
+    src/pdal/PyPipeline.cpp
+    src/pdal/StreamableExecutor.cpp
+    src/pdal/libpdalpython.cpp
 )
 target_include_directories(${extension} PRIVATE ${Python3_NumPy_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 target_link_libraries(${extension} PRIVATE ${PDAL_LIBRARIES})
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 1a2d9de6..77915dda 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Additionally, you can use it to fetch `schema`_ and `metadata`_ from PDAL operat
 Installation
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+**Note** The PDAL Python bindings require the PDAL base library installed. Source code can be found at https://pdal.io and `GitHub <https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL>`__.
+
 PyPI
 ................................................................................
 
@@ -307,8 +309,8 @@ USE-CASE : Take a LiDAR map, create a mesh from the ground points, split into ti
 Requirements
 ================================================================================
 
-* PDAL 2.5+
+* PDAL 2.6+
 * Python >=3.9
 * Pybind11 (eg :code:`pip install pybind11[global]`)
 * Numpy (eg :code:`pip install numpy`)
-* scikit-build (eg :code:`pip install scikit-build`)
+* scikit-build-core (eg :code:`pip install scikit-build-core`)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index db01ea67..419a8b08 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,69 @@
+[project]
+name = "pdal"
+description = "Point cloud data processing"
+readme = "README.rst"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+license = {file = "LICENSE.txt"}
+keywords = ["point", "cloud", "spatial"]
+authors = [
+  {email = "howard@hobu.co"},
+  {name = "Howard Butler"}
+]
+maintainers = [
+  {name = "Howard Butler", email = "howard@hobu.co"}
+]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: GIS",
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+  "numpy"
+]
+
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+test = [
+  "pandas",
+  "meshio"
+]
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+package-dir = {"" =  "src"}
+zip-safe = false
+
+[project.urls]
+homepage = "https://pdal.io"
+documentation = "https://pdal.io"
+repository = "https://github.com/PDAL/Python"
+changelog = "https://github.com/PDAL/python/blob/main/README.rst"
+
 [build-system]
-requires = ["scikit-build", "cmake>=3.11", "ninja", "numpy",  "pybind11[global]"]
+requires = ["scikit-build-core >= 0.9", "numpy",  "pybind11[global]"]
+build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
+
+
+[tool.scikit-build]
+build-dir = "build/{wheel_tag}"
+sdist.exclude = [".github"]
+sdist.cmake = true
+cmake.build-type = "Release"
+sdist.include = [
+  "src",
+  "CMakeLists.txt"
+]
+cmake.verbose = false
+logging.level = "ERROR"
+
+[tool.scikit-build.metadata.version]
+provider = "scikit_build_core.metadata.regex"
+input = "src/pdal/__init__.py"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py.off
similarity index 100%
rename from setup.py
rename to setup.py.off
diff --git a/pdal/PyArray.cpp b/src/pdal/PyArray.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/PyArray.cpp
rename to src/pdal/PyArray.cpp
diff --git a/pdal/PyArray.hpp b/src/pdal/PyArray.hpp
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/PyArray.hpp
rename to src/pdal/PyArray.hpp
diff --git a/pdal/PyDimension.hpp b/src/pdal/PyDimension.hpp
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/PyDimension.hpp
rename to src/pdal/PyDimension.hpp
diff --git a/pdal/PyPipeline.cpp b/src/pdal/PyPipeline.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/PyPipeline.cpp
rename to src/pdal/PyPipeline.cpp
diff --git a/pdal/PyPipeline.hpp b/src/pdal/PyPipeline.hpp
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/PyPipeline.hpp
rename to src/pdal/PyPipeline.hpp
diff --git a/pdal/StreamableExecutor.cpp b/src/pdal/StreamableExecutor.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/StreamableExecutor.cpp
rename to src/pdal/StreamableExecutor.cpp
diff --git a/pdal/StreamableExecutor.hpp b/src/pdal/StreamableExecutor.hpp
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/StreamableExecutor.hpp
rename to src/pdal/StreamableExecutor.hpp
diff --git a/pdal/__init__.py b/src/pdal/__init__.py
similarity index 94%
rename from pdal/__init__.py
rename to src/pdal/__init__.py
index 1f05ff3d..7ba4fad7 100644
--- a/pdal/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pdal/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-__version__ = "3.3.0"
 __all__ = ["Pipeline", "Stage", "Reader", "Filter", "Writer", "dimensions", "info"]
+__version__ = '3.4.0'
 
 from . import libpdalpython
 from .drivers import inject_pdal_drivers
diff --git a/src/pdal/__main__.py b/src/pdal/__main__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f45f3151
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pdal/__main__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+import sys
+import os
+import pathlib
+
+import distutils.ccompiler
+so_ext = distutils.ccompiler.new_compiler().shared_lib_extension
+import sysconfig
+
+import argparse
+
+import pdal
+
+from . import __version__
+
+__all__ = ["main"]
+
+
+def __dir__() -> list[str]:
+    return __all__
+
+
+def print_driver_path(args):
+    print (os.environ['PDAL_DRIVER_PATH'])
+
+def print_plugin_path(args):
+    purelib = sysconfig.get_paths()["purelib"]+os.path.sep+"pdal"
+
+    if sys.platform == "linux" or sys.platform == "linux2":
+        suffix = 'so'
+        purelib = purelib + os.path.sep + "pdal"
+    elif sys.platform == "darwin":
+        suffix = 'dylib'
+        purelib = purelib + os.path.sep + "pdal"
+    elif sys.platform == "win32":
+        suffix = 'dll'
+        purelib = purelib + os.path.sep + "bin"
+
+    for f in pathlib.Path(purelib).glob(f'*.{suffix}'):
+        if 'pdal' in str(f.name):
+            if 'numpy' in str(f.name) or 'python' in str(f.name):
+                print (purelib)
+                return # we are done
+
+def print_version(args):
+    info = pdal.drivers.libpdalpython.getInfo()
+    pdal_version = info.version
+    plugin = info.plugin
+    debug = info.debug
+
+    line = '----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n'
+    version = f'PDAL version {pdal_version}\nPython bindings version {__version__}\n'
+    plugin = f"Environment-set PDAL_DRIVER_PATH: {os.environ['PDAL_DRIVER_PATH']}"
+    output = f'{line}{version}{plugin}\n{line}\n{debug}'
+    print (output)
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    header = f"PDAL Python bindings {__version__} on Python {sys.version}"
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=header)
+    parser.add_argument('--pdal-driver-path',  action='store_true',
+                        help='print PDAL_DRIVER_PATH including Python plugin locations')
+    parser.add_argument('--pdal-plugin-path',  action='store_true',
+                        help='print location of PDAL Python plugins')
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if args.pdal_driver_path:
+        print_driver_path(args)
+    elif args.pdal_plugin_path:
+        print_plugin_path(args)
+    else:
+        print_version(args)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/pdal/drivers.py b/src/pdal/drivers.py
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/drivers.py
rename to src/pdal/drivers.py
diff --git a/pdal/libpdalpython.cpp b/src/pdal/libpdalpython.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/libpdalpython.cpp
rename to src/pdal/libpdalpython.cpp
diff --git a/pdal/pipeline.py b/src/pdal/pipeline.py
similarity index 100%
rename from pdal/pipeline.py
rename to src/pdal/pipeline.py