diff --git a/packages/backend-core/package.json b/packages/backend-core/package.json
index 975b42df89..b0d9f8b8d9 100644
--- a/packages/backend-core/package.json
+++ b/packages/backend-core/package.json
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@
     "sanitize-s3-objectkey": "0.0.1",
     "semver": "7.3.7",
     "tar-fs": "2.1.1",
-    "uuid": "8.3.2",
-    "zlib": "1.0.5"
+    "uuid": "8.3.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@swc/core": "^1.3.25",
diff --git a/packages/backend-core/src/objectStore/objectStore.ts b/packages/backend-core/src/objectStore/objectStore.ts
index 059e1b228d..4ac3641de1 100644
--- a/packages/backend-core/src/objectStore/objectStore.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-core/src/objectStore/objectStore.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import AWS from "aws-sdk"
 import stream from "stream"
 import fetch from "node-fetch"
 import tar from "tar-fs"
-const zlib = require("zlib")
+import zlib from "zlib"
 import { promisify } from "util"
 import { join } from "path"
 import fs from "fs"
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ export const downloadTarballDirect = async (
     throw new Error(`unexpected response ${response.statusText}`)
   }
 
-  await streamPipeline(response.body, zlib.Unzip(), tar.extract(path))
+  await streamPipeline(response.body, zlib.createUnzip(), tar.extract(path))
 }
 
 export const downloadTarball = async (
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ export const downloadTarball = async (
   }
 
   const tmpPath = join(budibaseTempDir(), path)
-  await streamPipeline(response.body, zlib.Unzip(), tar.extract(tmpPath))
+  await streamPipeline(response.body, zlib.createUnzip(), tar.extract(tmpPath))
   if (!env.isTest() && env.SELF_HOSTED) {
     await uploadDirectory(bucketName, tmpPath, path)
   }
diff --git a/packages/server/package.json b/packages/server/package.json
index 7a32c2312d..8da9522142 100644
--- a/packages/server/package.json
+++ b/packages/server/package.json
@@ -119,8 +119,7 @@
     "vm2": "3.9.11",
     "worker-farm": "1.7.0",
     "xml2js": "0.4.23",
-    "yargs": "13.2.4",
-    "zlib": "1.0.5"
+    "yargs": "13.2.4"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/core": "7.17.4",
diff --git a/packages/worker/src/api/index.ts b/packages/worker/src/api/index.ts
index b390d36bb8..2a3133af3f 100644
--- a/packages/worker/src/api/index.ts
+++ b/packages/worker/src/api/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import Router from "@koa/router"
 const compress = require("koa-compress")
-const zlib = require("zlib")
+import zlib from "zlib"
 import { routes } from "./routes"
 import { middleware as pro } from "@budibase/pro"
 import { auth, middleware } from "@budibase/backend-core"
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 9d50b0a8c8..56fd87d2e8 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -25463,8 +25463,3 @@ z-schema@^5.0.1:
     validator "^13.7.0"
   optionalDependencies:
     commander "^9.4.1"
-
-zlib@1.0.5:
-  version "1.0.5"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/zlib/-/zlib-1.0.5.tgz#6e7c972fc371c645a6afb03ab14769def114fcc0"
-  integrity sha512-40fpE2II+Cd3k8HWTWONfeKE2jL+P42iWJ1zzps5W51qcTsOUKM5Q5m2PFb0CLxlmFAaUuUdJGc3OfZy947v0w==