diff --git a/js/utils/url_utils.js b/js/utils/url_utils.js
index 86c8dfc5..94584026 100644
--- a/js/utils/url_utils.js
+++ b/js/utils/url_utils.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import camelCase from 'camelcase';
 import decamelize from 'decamelize';
-import qs from 'qs';
+import queryString from 'query-string';
 
 import { sanitize } from './general_utils';
 
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ export function argsToQueryParams(obj) {
             queryParamObj[decamelize(key)] = sanitizedObj[key];
         });
 
-    // Use bracket arrayFormat as history.js and react-router use it
-    return '?' + qs.stringify(queryParamObj, { arrayFormat: 'brackets' });
+    return '?' + queryString.stringify(queryParamObj);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -56,13 +55,13 @@ export function getCurrentQueryParams() {
  * @return {object}                  Query params dictionary
  */
 export function queryParamsToArgs(queryParamString) {
-    const qsQueryParamObj = qs.parse(queryParamString);
+    const queryParamObj = queryString.parse(queryParamString);
     const camelCaseParamObj = {};
 
     Object
-        .keys(qsQueryParamObj)
+        .keys(queryParamObj)
         .forEach((key) => {
-            camelCaseParamObj[camelCase(key)] = qsQueryParamObj[key];
+            camelCaseParamObj[camelCase(key)] = queryParamObj[key];
         });
 
     return camelCaseParamObj;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ec4d505e..a874ea2c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     "object-assign": "^2.0.0",
     "opn": "^3.0.2",
     "q": "^1.4.1",
-    "qs": "^4.0.0",
+    "query-string": "^3.0.0",
     "raven-js": "^1.1.19",
     "react": "0.13.2",
     "react-bootstrap": "0.25.1",