diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 2641d4f..fbde8c5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: mlugg/setup-zig@v2
         with:
-          version: 0.16.0
+          version: 0.17.0
       - run: zig fmt --check *.zig
 
   test-in-memory:
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup zig
         uses: mlugg/setup-zig@v2
         with:
-          version: 0.16.0
+          version: 0.17.0
 
       - name: Install qemu
         if: ${{ matrix.os == 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
diff --git a/build.zig b/build.zig
index 817eeb9..7787b1e 100644
--- a/build.zig
+++ b/build.zig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const mem = std.mem;
 const ResolvedTarget = std.Build.ResolvedTarget;
 const Query = std.Target.Query;
 const builtin = @import("builtin");
+const Translator = @import("translate_c").Translator;
 
 fn getTarget(original_target: ResolvedTarget) ResolvedTarget {
     var tmp = original_target;
@@ -106,16 +107,22 @@ fn computeTestTargets(isNative: bool, ci: ?bool) ?[]const TestTarget {
     return null;
 }
 
+/// Translates `header` (which includes sqlite3.h) with the translate-c package,
+/// which replaces `@cImport` and the deprecated `std.Build.addTranslateC`.
 fn translateSQLite(b: *std.Build, dep: *std.Build.Dependency, header: []const u8, target: std.Build.ResolvedTarget, optimize: std.builtin.OptimizeMode) *std.Build.Module {
-    const translate_c = b.addTranslateC(.{
-        .root_source_file = b.path(header),
+    const translate_c = b.dependency("translate_c", .{});
+    const t: Translator = .init(translate_c, .{
+        .c_source_file = b.path(header),
         .target = target,
         .optimize = optimize,
+        // Struct fields default to zero, as with @cImport, so struct literals such as
+        // vtab.zig's sqlite3_module compile against every SQLite version.
+        .default_init = true,
     });
-    translate_c.addIncludePath(dep.path("."));
-    translate_c.addIncludePath(b.path("c"));
+    t.addIncludePath(dep.path("."));
+    t.addIncludePath(b.path("c"));
 
-    return translate_c.createModule();
+    return t.mod;
 }
 
 // This creates a SQLite static library from the SQLite dependency code.
diff --git a/build.zig.zon b/build.zig.zon
index d13c596..d09cfb2 100644
--- a/build.zig.zon
+++ b/build.zig.zon
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
             .url = "https://www.sqlite.org/2025/sqlite-amalgamation-3490200.zip",
             .hash = "N-V-__8AAH-mpwB7g3MnqYU-ooUBF1t99RP27dZ9addtMVXD",
         },
+        // C bindings (replaces @cImport and the deprecated std.Build.addTranslateC),
+        // branch zig-0.17.x.
+        .translate_c = .{
+            .url = "git+https://codeberg.org/ziglang/translate-c?ref=zig-0.17.x#cfac21f3199b2b02ce3fd7db652aa456421fe4ab",
+            .hash = "translate_c-2.0.2-Q_BUWvBNBwDnyehSiuAJmdFcMYHYGA-Jc3KiYdrV2Dqx",
+        },
     },
     .paths = .{"."},
 }