diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ec4d8477..ad2838b0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -134,7 +134,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "env_logger",
  "flate2",
  "log",
- "regex",
  "reqwest",
  "semver",
  "serde",
@@ -1357,9 +1356,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "semver"
-version = "1.0.5"
+version = "1.0.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0486718e92ec9a68fbed73bb5ef687d71103b142595b406835649bebd33f72c7"
+checksum = "d65bd28f48be7196d222d95b9243287f48d27aca604e08497513019ff0502cc4"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e3df5211..a6e21780 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,12 +37,11 @@ strum_macros = "0.23.1"
 strum = "0.23.0"
 dirs = "4.0.0"
 crates-index = "0.18.5"
-semver = "1.0.5"
+semver = "1.0.7"
 xz2 = "0.1.6"
 zip = "0.5.13"
 async-trait = "0.1.52"
 url = "2.2.2"
-regex = "1.5.5"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger = "0.9.0"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index b04c9973..3943b44e 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::{path::PathBuf, str::FromStr};
 
 use log::{debug, error, info, warn, LevelFilter};
 use simplelog::{ColorChoice, ConfigBuilder, TermLogger, TerminalMode};
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
     let manifest = load_manifest_path(manifest_path.join("Cargo.toml"))?;
     let package = manifest.package.unwrap();
 
-    let plain_version_rx = regex::Regex::new(r"^\d+[.]\d+[.]\d+(-\w+([.]\d+)?)?$").unwrap();
-    if plain_version_rx.is_match(&opts.version) && package.version != opts.version {
+    let is_plain_version = semver::Version::from_str(&opts.version).is_ok();
+    if is_plain_version && package.version != opts.version {
         warn!(
             "You specified `--version {o}` but the package resolved that to '{p}', use `={o}` if you want an exact match",
             o=opts.version, p=package.version