diff --git a/gradle-sls-packaging/src/main/java/com/palantir/gradle/dist/service/DistTarTask.java b/gradle-sls-packaging/src/main/java/com/palantir/gradle/dist/service/DistTarTask.java
index 8fef17ea5..f1d79a13e 100644
--- a/gradle-sls-packaging/src/main/java/com/palantir/gradle/dist/service/DistTarTask.java
+++ b/gradle-sls-packaging/src/main/java/com/palantir/gradle/dist/service/DistTarTask.java
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Jar;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Tar;
 
-@SuppressWarnings("deprecation") // for the setFileMode calls
 final class DistTarTask {
     static final String SCRIPTS_DIST_LOCATION = "service/bin";
 
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ static void configure(
 
             root.from("service/bin", t -> {
                 t.into("service/bin");
-                t.setFileMode(0755);
+                t.filePermissions(filePerms -> filePerms.unix(0755));
             });
 
             // We do this trick of iterating through every java version and making a from with a lazy value to be lazy
@@ -89,17 +88,17 @@ static void configure(
 
             root.into(SCRIPTS_DIST_LOCATION, t -> {
                 t.from(project.getLayout().getBuildDirectory().dir("scripts"));
-                t.setFileMode(0755);
+                t.filePermissions(filePerms -> filePerms.unix(0755));
             });
 
             root.into("service/monitoring/bin", t -> {
                 t.from(project.getLayout().getBuildDirectory().dir("monitoring"));
-                t.setFileMode(0755);
+                t.filePermissions(filePerms -> filePerms.unix(0755));
             });
 
             root.into("service/lib/linux-x86-64", t -> {
                 t.from(project.getLayout().getBuildDirectory().dir("libs/linux-x86-64"));
-                t.setFileMode(0755);
+                t.filePermissions(filePerms -> filePerms.unix(0755));
             });
 
             DeploymentDirInclusion.includeFromDeploymentDirs(