diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index d4cc7df01..5050302ff 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -2752,4 +2752,4 @@ web = ["flask", "flask-cors"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8,<4"
-content-hash = "2ff0a67fbc8099eed500963f3338cf00d687abee9af56aac744a169f8f22d50d"
+content-hash = "4ae4e4157dd4a0c7951ba1f642c8dc36ae8ca264789b2a224ecaaf5e3a2f289a"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bcd9252c7..950818ed2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,16 +34,13 @@ Changelog = "https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/docs/changelog.rst"
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.8,<4"
 
-click = ">=8.1.7"
 colorama = { version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == 'win32'" }
 confuse = ">=1.5.0"
 jellyfish = "*"
 mediafile = ">=0.12.0"
 munkres = ">=1.0.0"
 musicbrainzngs = ">=0.4"
-packaging = ">=24.0"
 pyyaml = "*"
-tomli = ">=2.0.1"
 typing_extensions = "*"
 unidecode = ">=1.3.6"
 beautifulsoup4 = { version = "*", optional = true }
@@ -106,6 +103,11 @@ types-urllib3 = "*"
 pydata-sphinx-theme = "*"
 sphinx = "*"
 
+[tool.poetry.group.release.dependencies]
+click = ">=8.1.7"
+packaging = ">=24.0"
+tomli = ">=2.0.1"
+
 [tool.poetry.extras]
 # inline comments note required external / non-python dependencies
 absubmit = ["requests"] # extractor binary from https://acousticbrainz.org/download