diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index e8f078a32..c98ce617e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ Sviatoslav Sydorenko
 Thomas Grainger
 Tim Laurence
 Tyagraj Desigar
+Usama Sadiq
 Ville Skyttä
 Xander Johnson
 anatoly techtonik
diff --git a/docs/changelog/1682.bugfix.rst b/docs/changelog/1682.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d68fdf516
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/1682.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Relax importlib requirement to allow version<3 - by :user:`usamasadiq`
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 5747b88e2..01073dceb 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ 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,<2;python_version<"3.8"
+    importlib-metadata>=0.12,<3;python_version<"3.8"
 python_requires = >=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*
 
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