diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 51dfb564..157191e7 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: java -version
       - sbt_cmd:
           scala_version: << parameters.scala_version >>
-          sbt_tasks: xml/update xml/compile xml/Test/compile xml/test xml/doc xml/package xml/osgiBundle xml/versionPolicyCheck
+          sbt_tasks: xml/update xml/compile xml/Test/compile xml/test xml/doc xml/package xml/osgiBundle
   scalajs_job:
     executor: scala_jdk8_executor
     parameters:
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index b560cdaa..6c1e3e93 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -3,10 +3,8 @@ import sbtcrossproject.CrossPlugin.autoImport.{crossProject, CrossType}
 ThisBuild / startYear := Some(2002)
 ThisBuild / licenses += (("Apache-2.0", url("https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0")))
 
-ThisBuild / versionScheme := Some("early-semver")
-ThisBuild / versionPolicyIntention := Compatibility.BinaryCompatible
 // because it doesn't declare it itself
-ThisBuild / versionPolicyDependencySchemes += "org.scala-js" %% "scalajs-library" % "semver-spec"
+ThisBuild / libraryDependencySchemes += "org.scala-js" %% "scalajs-library" % "semver-spec"
 
 lazy val configSettings: Seq[Setting[_]] = Seq(
   unmanagedSourceDirectories ++= {
@@ -59,7 +57,7 @@ lazy val xml = crossProject(JSPlatform, JVMPlatform, NativePlatform)
           |""".stripMargin)),
 
     // Note: See discussion on non-JVM Mima in https://github.com/scala/scala-xml/pull/517
-    scalaModuleMimaPreviousVersion := Some("2.0.0"),
+    versionPolicyIntention := Compatibility.BinaryAndSourceCompatible,
     mimaReportSignatureProblems := true,
     mimaBinaryIssueFilters ++= {
       import com.typesafe.tools.mima.core._
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 373cc1ec..ab4af696 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ verPat="[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[A-Za-z0-9-]+)?"
 tagPat="^v$verPat(#.*)?$"
 
 if [[ "$TRAVIS_TAG" =~ $tagPat ]]; then
+  versionCheckTask="versionCheck"
   releaseTask="ci-release"
   if ! isReleaseJob; then
     echo "Not releasing on Java $ADOPTOPENJDK with Scala $TRAVIS_SCALA_VERSION"
@@ -53,4 +54,4 @@ export CI_SNAPSHOT_RELEASE="${projectPrefix}publish"
 # for now, until we're confident in the new release scripts, just close the staging repo.
 export CI_SONATYPE_RELEASE="; sonatypePrepare; sonatypeBundleUpload; sonatypeClose"
 
-sbt clean ${projectPrefix}test ${projectPrefix}versionPolicyCheck ${projectPrefix}publishLocal $releaseTask
+sbt clean ${projectPrefix}test ${projectPrefix}publishLocal $versionCheckTask $releaseTask
diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 9f7ba7a2..1df3b784 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ val scalaJSVersion =
 val scalaNativeVersion =
   Option(System.getenv("SCALANATIVE_VERSION")).filter(_.nonEmpty).getOrElse("0.4.0")
 
-addSbtPlugin("org.scala-lang.modules" % "sbt-scala-module" % "2.3.1")
+addSbtPlugin("org.scala-lang.modules" % "sbt-scala-module" % "2.4.0")
 addSbtPlugin("org.portable-scala" % "sbt-scalajs-crossproject" % "1.1.0")
 addSbtPlugin("org.portable-scala" % "sbt-scala-native-crossproject" % "1.1.0")
 addSbtPlugin("org.scala-js" % "sbt-scalajs" % scalaJSVersion)
 addSbtPlugin("org.scala-native" % "sbt-scala-native" % scalaNativeVersion)
 addSbtPlugin("de.heikoseeberger" % "sbt-header" % "5.6.0")
-addSbtPlugin("ch.epfl.scala" % "sbt-version-policy" % "1.2.1")