diff --git a/jenkins_jobs/registry.py b/jenkins_jobs/registry.py
index 963fa9332..c16a46084 100644
--- a/jenkins_jobs/registry.py
+++ b/jenkins_jobs/registry.py
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
 import inspect
 import logging
 import operator
+import packaging.version
 import pkg_resources
 import sys
 import types
-from pkg_resources.extern.packaging.version import InvalidVersion
 
 from six import PY2
 
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ class ModuleRegistry(object):
                 version = plugin_info["version"]
 
             try:
-                pkg_resources.parse_version(version)
-            except InvalidVersion:
+                packaging.version.Version(version)
+            except packaging.version.InvalidVersion:
                 plugin_name = short_name or long_name
                 if plugin_name:
                     logger.warning(
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ae75ba940..eb2c02ab5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ stevedore>=1.17.1; python_version >= '3.0'  # Apache-2.0
 python-jenkins>=1.8.2
 fasteners
 Jinja2
-setuptools==69.5.1; python_version >= '3.8'
-setuptools; python_version < '3.8'
+packaging
+setuptools