diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 05685554..5573e544 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ locales:
 	@pybabel compile -d searx/translations
 
 clean:
-	@rm -rf .installed.cfg .mr.developer.cfg bin parts develop-eggs \
-		searx.egg-info lib include .coverage coverage searx/static/themes/default/css/*.css
+	@rm -rf .installed.cfg .mr.developer.cfg bin parts develop-eggs eggs \
+		searx.egg-info lib include .coverage coverage
 
 .PHONY: all tests robot flake8 coverage production minimal styles locales clean
diff --git a/base.cfg b/base.cfg
index 4ed66833..6e46e9eb 100644
--- a/base.cfg
+++ b/base.cfg
@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
 [buildout]
 extends = versions.cfg
-versions = versions
 unzip = true
 newest = false
-extends = versions.cfg
-versions = versions
 prefer-final = true
 develop = .
 
-extensions =
-    buildout_versions
-
 eggs =
     searx
 
diff --git a/bootstrap.py b/bootstrap.py
index d5e8be1c..a4599211 100644
--- a/bootstrap.py
+++ b/bootstrap.py
@@ -18,75 +18,17 @@ The script accepts buildout command-line options, so you can
 use the -c option to specify an alternate configuration file.
 """
 
-import os, shutil, sys, tempfile, urllib, urllib2, subprocess
+import os
+import shutil
+import sys
+import tempfile
+
 from optparse import OptionParser
 
-if sys.platform == 'win32':
-    def quote(c):
-        if ' ' in c:
-            return '"%s"' % c  # work around spawn lamosity on windows
-        else:
-            return c
-else:
-    quote = str
+__version__ = '2015-07-01'
+# See zc.buildout's changelog if this version is up to date.
 
-# See zc.buildout.easy_install._has_broken_dash_S for motivation and comments.
-stdout, stderr = subprocess.Popen(
-    [sys.executable, '-Sc',
-     'try:\n'
-     '    import ConfigParser\n'
-     'except ImportError:\n'
-     '    print 1\n'
-     'else:\n'
-     '    print 0\n'],
-    stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
-has_broken_dash_S = bool(int(stdout.strip()))
-
-# In order to be more robust in the face of system Pythons, we want to
-# run without site-packages loaded.  This is somewhat tricky, in
-# particular because Python 2.6's distutils imports site, so starting
-# with the -S flag is not sufficient.  However, we'll start with that:
-if not has_broken_dash_S and 'site' in sys.modules:
-    # We will restart with python -S.
-    args = sys.argv[:]
-    args[0:0] = [sys.executable, '-S']
-    args = map(quote, args)
-    os.execv(sys.executable, args)
-# Now we are running with -S.  We'll get the clean sys.path, import site
-# because distutils will do it later, and then reset the path and clean
-# out any namespace packages from site-packages that might have been
-# loaded by .pth files.
-clean_path = sys.path[:]
-import site  # imported because of its side effects
-sys.path[:] = clean_path
-for k, v in sys.modules.items():
-    if k in ('setuptools', 'pkg_resources') or (
-        hasattr(v, '__path__') and
-        len(v.__path__) == 1 and
-        not os.path.exists(os.path.join(v.__path__[0], '__init__.py'))):
-        # This is a namespace package.  Remove it.
-        sys.modules.pop(k)
-
-is_jython = sys.platform.startswith('java')
-
-setuptools_source = 'http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py'
-distribute_source = 'http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py'
-distribute_source = 'https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/f657df1f1ed46596d236376649c99a470662b4ba/distribute_setup.py'
-
-# parsing arguments
-def normalize_to_url(option, opt_str, value, parser):
-    if value:
-        if '://' not in value:  # It doesn't smell like a URL.
-            value = 'file://%s' % (
-                urllib.pathname2url(
-                    os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(value))),)
-        if opt_str == '--download-base' and not value.endswith('/'):
-            # Download base needs a trailing slash to make the world happy.
-            value += '/'
-    else:
-        value = None
-    name = opt_str[2:].replace('-', '_')
-    setattr(parser.values, name, value)
+tmpeggs = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='bootstrap-')
 
 usage = '''\
 [DESIRED PYTHON FOR BUILDOUT] bootstrap.py [options]
@@ -96,31 +38,14 @@ Bootstraps a buildout-based project.
 Simply run this script in a directory containing a buildout.cfg, using the
 Python that you want bin/buildout to use.
 
-Note that by using --setup-source and --download-base to point to
-local resources, you can keep this script from going over the network.
+Note that by using --find-links to point to local resources, you can keep
+this script from going over the network.
 '''
 
 parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
-parser.add_option("-v", "--version", dest="version",
-                          help="use a specific zc.buildout version")
-parser.add_option("-d", "--distribute",
-                   action="store_true", dest="use_distribute", default=False,
-                   help="Use Distribute rather than Setuptools.")
-parser.add_option("--setup-source", action="callback", dest="setup_source",
-                  callback=normalize_to_url, nargs=1, type="string",
-                  help=("Specify a URL or file location for the setup file. "
-                        "If you use Setuptools, this will default to " +
-                        setuptools_source + "; if you use Distribute, this "
-                        "will default to " + distribute_source + "."))
-parser.add_option("--download-base", action="callback", dest="download_base",
-                  callback=normalize_to_url, nargs=1, type="string",
-                  help=("Specify a URL or directory for downloading "
-                        "zc.buildout and either Setuptools or Distribute. "
-                        "Defaults to PyPI."))
-parser.add_option("--eggs",
-                  help=("Specify a directory for storing eggs.  Defaults to "
-                        "a temporary directory that is deleted when the "
-                        "bootstrap script completes."))
+parser.add_option("--version",
+                  action="store_true", default=False,
+                  help=("Return bootstrap.py version."))
 parser.add_option("-t", "--accept-buildout-test-releases",
                   dest='accept_buildout_test_releases',
                   action="store_true", default=False,
@@ -130,95 +55,117 @@ parser.add_option("-t", "--accept-buildout-test-releases",
                         "extensions for you.  If you use this flag, "
                         "bootstrap and buildout will get the newest releases "
                         "even if they are alphas or betas."))
-parser.add_option("-c", None, action="store", dest="config_file",
-                   help=("Specify the path to the buildout configuration "
-                         "file to be used."))
+parser.add_option("-c", "--config-file",
+                  help=("Specify the path to the buildout configuration "
+                        "file to be used."))
+parser.add_option("-f", "--find-links",
+                  help=("Specify a URL to search for buildout releases"))
+parser.add_option("--allow-site-packages",
+                  action="store_true", default=False,
+                  help=("Let bootstrap.py use existing site packages"))
+parser.add_option("--buildout-version",
+                  help="Use a specific zc.buildout version")
+parser.add_option("--setuptools-version",
+                  help="Use a specific setuptools version")
+parser.add_option("--setuptools-to-dir",
+                  help=("Allow for re-use of existing directory of "
+                        "setuptools versions"))
 
 options, args = parser.parse_args()
+if options.version:
+    print("bootstrap.py version %s" % __version__)
+    sys.exit(0)
 
-if options.eggs:
-    eggs_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(options.eggs))
-else:
-    eggs_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
 
-if options.setup_source is None:
-    if options.use_distribute:
-        options.setup_source = distribute_source
-    else:
-        options.setup_source = setuptools_source
-
-if options.accept_buildout_test_releases:
-    args.insert(0, 'buildout:accept-buildout-test-releases=true')
+######################################################################
+# load/install setuptools
 
 try:
-    import pkg_resources
-    import setuptools  # A flag.  Sometimes pkg_resources is installed alone.
-    if not hasattr(pkg_resources, '_distribute'):
-        raise ImportError
+    from urllib.request import urlopen
 except ImportError:
-    ez_code = urllib2.urlopen(
-        options.setup_source).read().replace('\r\n', '\n')
-    ez = {}
-    exec ez_code in ez
-    setup_args = dict(to_dir=eggs_dir, download_delay=0)
-    if options.download_base:
-        setup_args['download_base'] = options.download_base
-    if options.use_distribute:
-        setup_args['no_fake'] = True
-        if sys.version_info[:2] == (2, 4):
-            setup_args['version'] = '0.6.32'
-    ez['use_setuptools'](**setup_args)
-    if 'pkg_resources' in sys.modules:
-        reload(sys.modules['pkg_resources'])
-    import pkg_resources
-    # This does not (always?) update the default working set.  We will
-    # do it.
-    for path in sys.path:
-        if path not in pkg_resources.working_set.entries:
-            pkg_resources.working_set.add_entry(path)
+    from urllib2 import urlopen
 
-cmd = [quote(sys.executable),
-       '-c',
-       quote('from setuptools.command.easy_install import main; main()'),
-       '-mqNxd',
-       quote(eggs_dir)]
-
-if not has_broken_dash_S:
-    cmd.insert(1, '-S')
-
-find_links = options.download_base
-if not find_links:
-    find_links = os.environ.get('bootstrap-testing-find-links')
-if not find_links and options.accept_buildout_test_releases:
-    find_links = 'http://downloads.buildout.org/'
-if find_links:
-    cmd.extend(['-f', quote(find_links)])
-
-if options.use_distribute:
-    setup_requirement = 'distribute'
+ez = {}
+if os.path.exists('ez_setup.py'):
+    exec(open('ez_setup.py').read(), ez)
 else:
-    setup_requirement = 'setuptools'
+    exec(urlopen('https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py').read(), ez)
+
+if not options.allow_site_packages:
+    # ez_setup imports site, which adds site packages
+    # this will remove them from the path to ensure that incompatible versions
+    # of setuptools are not in the path
+    import site
+    # inside a virtualenv, there is no 'getsitepackages'.
+    # We can't remove these reliably
+    if hasattr(site, 'getsitepackages'):
+        for sitepackage_path in site.getsitepackages():
+            # Strip all site-packages directories from sys.path that
+            # are not sys.prefix; this is because on Windows
+            # sys.prefix is a site-package directory.
+            if sitepackage_path != sys.prefix:
+                sys.path[:] = [x for x in sys.path
+                               if sitepackage_path not in x]
+
+setup_args = dict(to_dir=tmpeggs, download_delay=0)
+
+if options.setuptools_version is not None:
+    setup_args['version'] = options.setuptools_version
+if options.setuptools_to_dir is not None:
+    setup_args['to_dir'] = options.setuptools_to_dir
+
+ez['use_setuptools'](**setup_args)
+import setuptools
+import pkg_resources
+
+# This does not (always?) update the default working set.  We will
+# do it.
+for path in sys.path:
+    if path not in pkg_resources.working_set.entries:
+        pkg_resources.working_set.add_entry(path)
+
+######################################################################
+# Install buildout
+
 ws = pkg_resources.working_set
-setup_requirement_path = ws.find(
-    pkg_resources.Requirement.parse(setup_requirement)).location
-env = dict(
-    os.environ,
-    PYTHONPATH=setup_requirement_path)
+
+setuptools_path = ws.find(
+    pkg_resources.Requirement.parse('setuptools')).location
+
+# Fix sys.path here as easy_install.pth added before PYTHONPATH
+cmd = [sys.executable, '-c',
+       'import sys; sys.path[0:0] = [%r]; ' % setuptools_path +
+       'from setuptools.command.easy_install import main; main()',
+       '-mZqNxd', tmpeggs]
+
+find_links = os.environ.get(
+    'bootstrap-testing-find-links',
+    options.find_links or
+    ('http://downloads.buildout.org/'
+     if options.accept_buildout_test_releases else None)
+    )
+if find_links:
+    cmd.extend(['-f', find_links])
 
 requirement = 'zc.buildout'
-version = options.version
+version = options.buildout_version
 if version is None and not options.accept_buildout_test_releases:
     # Figure out the most recent final version of zc.buildout.
     import setuptools.package_index
     _final_parts = '*final-', '*final'
 
     def _final_version(parsed_version):
-        for part in parsed_version:
-            if (part[:1] == '*') and (part not in _final_parts):
-                return False
-        return True
+        try:
+            return not parsed_version.is_prerelease
+        except AttributeError:
+            # Older setuptools
+            for part in parsed_version:
+                if (part[:1] == '*') and (part not in _final_parts):
+                    return False
+            return True
+
     index = setuptools.package_index.PackageIndex(
-        search_path=[setup_requirement_path])
+        search_path=[setuptools_path])
     if find_links:
         index.add_find_links((find_links,))
     req = pkg_resources.Requirement.parse(requirement)
@@ -227,8 +174,6 @@ if version is None and not options.accept_buildout_test_releases:
         bestv = None
         for dist in index[req.project_name]:
             distv = dist.parsed_version
-            if distv >= pkg_resources.parse_version('2dev'):
-                continue
             if _final_version(distv):
                 if bestv is None or distv > bestv:
                     best = [dist]
@@ -238,40 +183,28 @@ if version is None and not options.accept_buildout_test_releases:
         if best:
             best.sort()
             version = best[-1].version
-
 if version:
-    requirement += '=='+version
-else:
-    requirement += '<2dev'
-
+    requirement = '=='.join((requirement, version))
 cmd.append(requirement)
 
-if is_jython:
-    import subprocess
-    exitcode = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=env).wait()
-else:  # Windows prefers this, apparently; otherwise we would prefer subprocess
-    exitcode = os.spawnle(*([os.P_WAIT, sys.executable] + cmd + [env]))
-if exitcode != 0:
-    sys.stdout.flush()
-    sys.stderr.flush()
-    print ("An error occurred when trying to install zc.buildout. "
-           "Look above this message for any errors that "
-           "were output by easy_install.")
-    sys.exit(exitcode)
+import subprocess
+if subprocess.call(cmd) != 0:
+    raise Exception(
+        "Failed to execute command:\n%s" % repr(cmd)[1:-1])
 
-ws.add_entry(eggs_dir)
+######################################################################
+# Import and run buildout
+
+ws.add_entry(tmpeggs)
 ws.require(requirement)
 import zc.buildout.buildout
 
-# If there isn't already a command in the args, add bootstrap
 if not [a for a in args if '=' not in a]:
     args.append('bootstrap')
 
-
-# if -c was provided, we push it back into args for buildout's main function
+# if -c was provided, we push it back into args for buildout' main function
 if options.config_file is not None:
     args[0:0] = ['-c', options.config_file]
 
 zc.buildout.buildout.main(args)
-if not options.eggs:  # clean up temporary egg directory
-    shutil.rmtree(eggs_dir)
+shutil.rmtree(tmpeggs)
diff --git a/versions.cfg b/versions.cfg
index 94521741..6aad7a74 100644
--- a/versions.cfg
+++ b/versions.cfg
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ Pygments = 2.0.2
 WebOb = 1.4.1
 WebTest = 2.0.18
 Werkzeug = 0.10.4
-buildout-versions = 1.7
 collective.recipe.omelette = 0.16
 coverage = 3.7.1
 decorator = 3.4.2
@@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ pyasn1 = 0.1.8
 pyasn1-modules = 0.0.6
 certifi = 2015.04.28
 
-# 
 cffi = 1.1.2
 cryptography = 0.9.1