diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 7da7c7b..420a1ce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
         if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
         run: pip install build twine
       - name: "Build package"
-        run: python setup.py clean --all bdist_wheel
+        run: python -m build
       - name: "Publish to PyPI"
         run: twine upload dist/*
         env:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3ab571d..aa4b6db 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def read(fname):
 
 setup(
     name="Flask-ESearch",
-    version=find_version("src/__init__.py"),
+    version="0.5.0",
     url="https://github.com/dymmond/flask-esearch",
     long_description=read("README.md"),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
diff --git a/src/__init__.py b/src/__init__.py
index 33acc28..8e58675 100644
--- a/src/__init__.py
+++ b/src/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1 @@
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
-
 __version__ = "0.5.0"
-__version_info__ = tuple(LooseVersion(__version__).version)