diff --git a/gulp/gulp-apidoc.js b/gulp/gulp-apidoc.js
index 0b15f65fa6..0771028cd4 100644
--- a/gulp/gulp-apidoc.js
+++ b/gulp/gulp-apidoc.js
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 import gulp from 'gulp';
-import clean from 'rimraf';
+import { rimraf as clean } from 'rimraf';
 import apidoc from 'apidoc';
 
 const APIDOC_DEST_PATH = './apidoc/html';
 const APIDOC_SRC_PATH = './website/server';
 const APIDOC_CONFIG_PATH = './apidoc/apidoc.json';
 gulp.task('apidoc:clean', done => {
-  clean(APIDOC_DEST_PATH, done);
+  clean.sync(APIDOC_DEST_PATH);
+  done();
 });
 
 gulp.task('apidoc', gulp.series('apidoc:clean', done => {
diff --git a/gulp/gulp-build.js b/gulp/gulp-build.js
index 11f91b454f..dc2c5c89a6 100644
--- a/gulp/gulp-build.js
+++ b/gulp/gulp-build.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import babel from 'gulp-babel';
 import os from 'os';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import spawn from 'cross-spawn'; // eslint-disable-line import/no-extraneous-dependencies
-import clean from 'rimraf';
+import { rimraf as clean } from 'rimraf';
 
 gulp.task('build:babel:server', () => gulp.src('website/server/**/*.js')
   .pipe(babel())
diff --git a/gulp/gulp-sprites.js b/gulp/gulp-sprites.js
index bc6f3ec3dd..683e7846a3 100644
--- a/gulp/gulp-sprites.js
+++ b/gulp/gulp-sprites.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import gulp from 'gulp';
 import spritesmith from 'gulp.spritesmith';
-import clean from 'rimraf';
+import { rimraf as clean } from 'rimraf';
 import mergeStream from 'merge-stream';
 import { sync } from 'glob';
 
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ gulp.task('sprites:main', async () => {
 });
 
 gulp.task('sprites:clean', done => {
-  clean(`${IMG_DIST_PATH}spritesmith*,${CSS_DIST_PATH}spritesmith*}`, done);
+  clean.sync(`${IMG_DIST_PATH}spritesmith*,${CSS_DIST_PATH}spritesmith*}`);
+  done();
 });
 
 gulp.task('sprites:compile', gulp.series('sprites:clean', 'sprites:main', done => done()));
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ed5454c1ba..12972f46c4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
     "rate-limiter-flexible": "^2.4.2",
     "redis": "^3.1.2",
     "remove-markdown": "^0.5.0",
-    "rimraf": "^3.0.2",
     "short-uuid": "^4.2.2",
+    "rimraf": "6.0.1",
     "sinon": "^15.2.0",
     "stripe": "^12.18.0",
     "superagent": "^8.1.2",