diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 458d16fe41..970f6745d8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   to crash at shutdown with a max recursion error ([#4586](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4586)).
 - Configurable max retry timeout for grpc exporter
   ([#4333](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4333))
+- opentelemetry-api: allow importlib-metadata 8.7.0
+  ([#4593](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4593))
 
 ## Version 1.33.0/0.54b0 (2025-05-09)
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml b/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
index 73a836c201..698bfb2a78 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "Deprecated >= 1.2.6",
     # FIXME This should be able to be removed after 3.12 is released if there is a reliable API
     # in importlib.metadata.
-    "importlib-metadata >= 6.0, < 8.7.0",
+    "importlib-metadata >= 6.0, < 8.8.0",
 ]
 dynamic = [
     "version",
diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt b/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
index 3cd0616c7c..d2cf77af94 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 asgiref==3.7.2
 Deprecated==1.2.14
 importlib-metadata==8.5.0 ; python_version < "3.9"
-importlib-metadata==8.6.1 ; python_version >= "3.9"
+importlib-metadata==8.7.0 ; python_version >= "3.9"
 iniconfig==2.0.0
 packaging==24.0
 pluggy==1.5.0
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index adb4be16d1..e96dd3074d 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [package.metadata]
 requires-dist = [
     { name = "deprecated", specifier = ">=1.2.6" },
-    { name = "importlib-metadata", specifier = ">=6.0,<8.7.0" },
+    { name = "importlib-metadata", specifier = ">=6.0,<8.8.0" },
 ]
 
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