diff --git a/fdroidserver/common.py b/fdroidserver/common.py
index 253d2460..8fe48874 100644
--- a/fdroidserver/common.py
+++ b/fdroidserver/common.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ import defusedxml.ElementTree as XMLElementTree
 from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode
 from binascii import hexlify
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from packaging.version import Version
 from queue import Queue
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ def find_apksigner(config):
         if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(build_tools_path, f)):
             continue
         try:
-            if LooseVersion(f) < LooseVersion(MINIMUM_APKSIGNER_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION):
+            if Version(f) < Version(MINIMUM_APKSIGNER_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION):
                 logging.debug("Local Android SDK only has outdated apksigner versions")
                 return
         except TypeError:
@@ -717,9 +717,9 @@ def test_aapt_version(aapt):
             # the Debian package has the version string like "v0.2-23.0.2"
             too_old = False
             if '.' in bugfix:
-                if LooseVersion(bugfix) < LooseVersion(MINIMUM_AAPT_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION):
+                if Version(bugfix) < Version(MINIMUM_AAPT_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION):
                     too_old = True
-            elif LooseVersion('.'.join((major, minor, bugfix))) < LooseVersion('0.2.4062713'):
+            elif Version('.'.join((major, minor, bugfix))) < Version('0.2.4062713'):
                 too_old = True
             if too_old:
                 logging.warning(_("'{aapt}' is too old, fdroid requires build-tools-{version} or newer!")
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f89ddf94..19eac953 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ setup(
         'paramiko',
         'Pillow',
         'apache-libcloud >= 0.14.1',
+        'packaging',
         'pyasn1 >=0.4.1, < 0.5.0',
         'pyasn1-modules >= 0.2.1, < 0.3',
         'python-vagrant',
diff --git a/tests/common.TestCase b/tests/common.TestCase
index 0fc8c41f..dc9717db 100755
--- a/tests/common.TestCase
+++ b/tests/common.TestCase
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import unittest
 import textwrap
 import yaml
 import gzip
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from packaging.version import Version
 from zipfile import BadZipFile, ZipFile
 from unittest import mock
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -852,9 +852,9 @@ class CommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
             v = bt.split('/')[-2]
             if v == 'debian':
                 continue
-            if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion(v):
+            if Version(version) < Version(v):
                 version = v
-        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion(min_version):
+        if Version(version) < Version(min_version):
             self.skipTest('SKIPPING since build-tools %s or higher is required!' % min_version)
         fdroidserver.common.config = {'sdk_path': android_home}
         with mock.patch.dict(os.environ, clear=True):
@@ -2374,10 +2374,10 @@ class CommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
         import sdkmanager
         import pkg_resources
 
-        sdkmanager_version = LooseVersion(
+        sdkmanager_version = Version(
             pkg_resources.get_distribution('sdkmanager').version
         )
-        if sdkmanager_version < LooseVersion('0.6.4'):
+        if sdkmanager_version < Version('0.6.4'):
             raise unittest.SkipTest('needs fdroid sdkmanager >= 0.6.4')
 
         fdroidserver.common.config = {'sdk_path': 'placeholder'}
diff --git a/tests/gradle-release-checksums.py b/tests/gradle-release-checksums.py
index 1ec54c5f..0c190ebf 100755
--- a/tests/gradle-release-checksums.py
+++ b/tests/gradle-release-checksums.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import requests
 import subprocess
 import sys
 from colorama import Fore, Style
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from packaging.version import Version
 
 
 checksums = None
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ for url, checksum in config['CACHE_FILES']:
 # error if makebuildserver is missing the latest version
 for version in sorted(versions.keys()):
     if version not in makebuildserver_versions \
-       and LooseVersion(version) > LooseVersion(sorted(makebuildserver_versions)[-1]):
+       and Version(version) > Version(sorted(makebuildserver_versions)[-1]):
         add_before = """    ('https://dl.google.com/android/ndk/android-ndk-r10e-linux-x86_64.bin',"""
         new = to_compile.replace(
             add_before,
@@ -78,14 +78,14 @@ for m in get_sha_pat.finditer(gradlew_fdroid):
               + Style.RESET_ALL)
         errors += 1
 new = ''
-for version in sorted(versions.keys(), key=LooseVersion):
+for version in sorted(versions.keys(), key=Version):
     sha256 = versions[version]
     spaces = ''
     for i in range(6 - len(version)):
         spaces += ' '
     new += """        '%s')%s echo '%s' ;;\n""" % (version, spaces, sha256)
 gradlew_fdroid = gradlew_fdroid.replace(current, new)
-plugin_v = ' '.join(sorted(versions.keys(), key=LooseVersion, reverse=True))
+plugin_v = ' '.join(sorted(versions.keys(), key=Version, reverse=True))
 plugin_v_pat = re.compile(r'\nplugin_v=\(([0-9. ]+)\)')
 with open('gradlew-fdroid', 'w') as fp:
     fp.write(plugin_v_pat.sub('\nplugin_v=(%s)' % plugin_v, gradlew_fdroid))
diff --git a/tests/update.TestCase b/tests/update.TestCase
index 7b9d6720..97829ff8 100755
--- a/tests/update.TestCase
+++ b/tests/update.TestCase
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import yaml
 import zipfile
 import textwrap
 from datetime import datetime
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from packaging.version import Version
 from pathlib import Path
 from testcommon import TmpCwd, mkdtemp
 from unittest import mock
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ class UpdateTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
                 javac = config['jarsigner'].replace('jarsigner', 'javac')
                 v = subprocess.check_output([javac, '-version'], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)[6:-1].decode('utf-8')
-                if LooseVersion(v) < LooseVersion('1.8.0_132'):
+                if Version(v) < Version('1.8.0_132'):
                     print('SKIPPING: running tests with old Java (' + v + ')')
                     return