diff --git a/app/routes/index.js b/app/routes/index.js
index 132cab9880a..030f4ba5480 100644
--- a/app/routes/index.js
+++ b/app/routes/index.js
@@ -5,12 +5,7 @@ export default Ember.Route.extend({
   model() {
     function addCrates(store, crates) {
         for (var i = 0; i < crates.length; i++) {
-            const crate = crates[i];
-            if (crate.versions == null) {
-              // passing `null` will return an empty versions array
-              delete crate.versions;
-            }
-            crates[i] = store.push(store.normalize('crate', crate));
+            crates[i] = store.push(store.normalize('crate', crates[i]));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/app/serializers/crate.js b/app/serializers/crate.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6e143ea064d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/serializers/crate.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import DS from 'ember-data';
+
+export default DS.RESTSerializer.extend({
+    isNewSerializerAPI: true,
+
+    extractRelationships(modelClass, resourceHash) {
+        if (resourceHash.versions == null) {
+            delete resourceHash.versions;
+        }
+
+        return this._super(modelClass, resourceHash);
+    }
+});