diff --git a/evalai/utils/updates.py b/evalai/utils/updates.py
index 3c08818f..4d9d11e9 100644
--- a/evalai/utils/updates.py
+++ b/evalai/utils/updates.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import requests
 
-from distutils.version import StrictVersion
+from packaging.version import Version as StrictVersion
 
 
 def get_latest_version():
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 48e9fbc1..325caa97 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ beautifultable==0.7.0
 boto3>=1.9.88
 click==6.7
 docker==3.6.0
-lxml==4.6.2
+lxml>=4.6.2,<5.0; python_version < "3.12"
+lxml>=5.0.0; python_version >= "3.12"
 python-dateutil==2.7.3
 requests==2.25.1
 validators==0.12.6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 862118f8..5c0cbaed 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import io
+import os
 import sys
 
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 from setuptools.command.test import test as TestCommand
-from distutils.util import convert_path
+
+
+# We use a manual way to find the version file path for CI compatibility
+def get_version_path(*paths):
+    return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *paths)
 
 
 class PyTest(TestCommand):
@@ -15,13 +20,12 @@ def finalize_options(self):
 
     def run_tests(self):
         import pytest
-
         sys.exit(pytest.main(self.test_args))
 
 
 PROJECT = "evalai"
 package_config = {}
-version_file_path = convert_path("evalai/version.py")
+version_file_path = get_version_path("evalai", "version.py")
 
 with io.open("README.md", encoding="utf-8") as f:
     long_description = f.read()
@@ -34,6 +38,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
 
 tests_require = [
     "coverage",
+    "packaging",
     "coveralls==1.3.0",
     "flake8==3.0.4",
     "pytest==3.5.1",