diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 3bbcdd9..67501e8 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ ArgParse = "c7e460c6-2fb9-53a9-8c5b-16f535851c63"
 Dagger = "d58978e5-989f-55fb-8d15-ea34adc7bf54"
 DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
 Distributed = "8ba89e20-285c-5b6f-9357-94700520ee1b"
+DistributedNext = "fab6aee4-877b-4bac-a744-3eca44acbb6f"
 FileIO = "5789e2e9-d7fb-5bc7-8068-2c6fae9b9549"
 GraphMLReader = "8e6830a9-644c-4485-8539-40ee18e3ca8c"
 GraphViz = "f526b714-d49f-11e8-06ff-31ed36ee7ee0"
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ Graphs = "86223c79-3864-5bf0-83f7-82e725a168b6"
 JSON3 = "0f8b85d8-7281-11e9-16c2-39a750bddbf1"
 MetaGraphs = "626554b9-1ddb-594c-aa3c-2596fe9399a5"
 Plots = "91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80"
+Preferences = "21216c6a-2e73-6563-6e65-726566657250"
 Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
 
 [sources.GraphMLReader]
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ ArgParse = "1.2"
 Dagger = "0.18.13"
 DataFrames = "1.6"
 Distributed = "1.11"
+DistributedNext = "1.0"
 FileIO = "1.16"
 GraphMLReader = "0.1"
 GraphViz = "0.2"
@@ -35,6 +38,7 @@ JSON3 = "1.14"
 Logging = "1.11"
 MetaGraphs = "0.7, 0.8"
 Plots = "1.40"
+Preferences = "1.4"
 Printf = "1.11"
 Test = "1.11"
 julia = "1.11"
@@ -46,3 +50,10 @@ Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
 test = ["Aqua", "Logging", "Test"]
+
+[preferences.Dagger]
+distributed-package = "DistributedNext"
+[preferences.MemPool]
+distributed-package = "DistributedNext"
+[preferences.TimespanLogging]
+distributed-package = "DistributedNext"
diff --git a/bin/schedule.jl b/bin/schedule.jl
index 01355f5..1cf4939 100644
--- a/bin/schedule.jl
+++ b/bin/schedule.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env julia
 
-using Distributed
+import Preferences
+if Preferences.load_preference("Dagger", "distributed-package") == "DistributedNext"
+    using DistributedNext
+else
+    using Distributed
+end
 using Dagger
 using ArgParse
 using FrameworkDemo
diff --git a/src/FrameworkDemo.jl b/src/FrameworkDemo.jl
index 8f77357..e447038 100644
--- a/src/FrameworkDemo.jl
+++ b/src/FrameworkDemo.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 module FrameworkDemo
-
+import Preferences
+if Preferences.load_preference("Dagger", "distributed-package") == "DistributedNext"
+     using DistributedNext
+else
+     using Distributed
+end
 include("logging.jl")
 include("parsing.jl")
 include("scheduling.jl")
diff --git a/src/scheduling.jl b/src/scheduling.jl
index bda2057..d738110 100644
--- a/src/scheduling.jl
+++ b/src/scheduling.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import Dagger
-using Distributed
 using MetaGraphs
 
 abstract type AbstractAlgorithm end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 4c678e0..2e91ad1 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-using Distributed
+import Preferences
+if Preferences.load_preference("Dagger", "distributed-package") == "DistributedNext"
+    using DistributedNext
+else
+    using Distributed
+end
 using Test
 
 if abspath(PROGRAM_FILE) == @__FILE__
@@ -13,8 +18,8 @@ end
 
 @info("Execution environment details",
       julia_version=VERSION,
-      n_workers=Distributed.nworkers(),
-      n_procs=Distributed.nprocs(),
+      n_workers=nworkers(),
+      n_procs=nprocs(),
       n_threads=Threads.nthreads(),
       test_args=repr(ARGS))