diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 265005bf3..48c4de0e4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "maturin"
-version = "1.7.5"
+version = "1.7.6-beta.1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "base64 0.21.7",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index de754edda..5b5c29ebe 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["konstin <konstin@mailbox.org>", "messense <messense@icloud.com>"]
 name = "maturin"
-version = "1.7.5"
+version = "1.7.6-beta.1"
 description = "Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages"
 exclude = [
     "test-crates/**/*",
diff --git a/src/build_context.rs b/src/build_context.rs
index d68a9c6f4..38f488a5a 100644
--- a/src/build_context.rs
+++ b/src/build_context.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ use crate::module_writer::{
     write_uniffi_module, write_wasm_launcher, WheelWriter,
 };
 use crate::project_layout::ProjectLayout;
-use crate::python_interpreter::InterpreterKind;
 use crate::source_distribution::source_distribution;
 use crate::target::{Arch, Os};
 use crate::{