diff --git a/django/core/validators.py b/django/core/validators.py
index 732bcae486..365c6a7f15 100644
--- a/django/core/validators.py
+++ b/django/core/validators.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import ipaddress
 import os
 import re
 from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urlunsplit
@@ -247,8 +248,12 @@ validate_unicode_slug = RegexValidator(
     'invalid'
 )
 
-ipv4_re = _lazy_re_compile(r'^(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9]?[0-9])(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9]?[0-9])){3}\Z')
-validate_ipv4_address = RegexValidator(ipv4_re, _('Enter a valid IPv4 address.'), 'invalid')
+
+def validate_ipv4_address(value):
+    try:
+        ipaddress.IPv4Address(value)
+    except ValueError:
+        raise ValidationError(_('Enter a valid IPv4 address.'), code='invalid')
 
 
 def validate_ipv6_address(value):
diff --git a/django/utils/ipv6.py b/django/utils/ipv6.py
index 93a1bfd1b2..4eb59e6021 100644
--- a/django/utils/ipv6.py
+++ b/django/utils/ipv6.py
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-# This code was mostly based on ipaddr-py
-# Copyright 2007 Google Inc. https://github.com/google/ipaddr-py
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
-import re
+import ipaddress
 
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
@@ -10,13 +7,12 @@ from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 def clean_ipv6_address(ip_str, unpack_ipv4=False,
                        error_message=_("This is not a valid IPv6 address.")):
     """
-    Cleans an IPv6 address string.
+    Clean an IPv6 address string.
 
-    Validity is checked by calling is_valid_ipv6_address() - if an
-    invalid address is passed, ValidationError is raised.
+    Raise ValidationError if the address is invalid.
 
-    Replaces the longest continuous zero-sequence with "::" and
-    removes leading zeroes and makes sure all hextets are lowercase.
+    Replace the longest continuous zero-sequence with "::", remove leading
+    zeroes, and make sure all hextets are lowercase.
 
     Args:
         ip_str: A valid IPv6 address.
@@ -24,125 +20,19 @@ def clean_ipv6_address(ip_str, unpack_ipv4=False,
         return the plain IPv4 address (default=False).
         error_message: An error message used in the ValidationError.
 
-    Returns:
-        A compressed IPv6 address, or the same value
+    Return a compressed IPv6 address or the same value.
     """
-    best_doublecolon_start = -1
-    best_doublecolon_len = 0
-    doublecolon_start = -1
-    doublecolon_len = 0
-
-    if not is_valid_ipv6_address(ip_str):
+    try:
+        addr = ipaddress.IPv6Address(int(ipaddress.IPv6Address(ip_str)))
+    except ValueError:
         raise ValidationError(error_message, code='invalid')
 
-    # This algorithm can only handle fully exploded
-    # IP strings
-    ip_str = _explode_shorthand_ip_string(ip_str)
+    if unpack_ipv4 and addr.ipv4_mapped:
+        return str(addr.ipv4_mapped)
+    elif addr.ipv4_mapped:
+        return '::ffff:%s' % str(addr.ipv4_mapped)
 
-    ip_str = _sanitize_ipv4_mapping(ip_str)
-
-    # If needed, unpack the IPv4 and return straight away
-    # - no need in running the rest of the algorithm
-    if unpack_ipv4:
-        ipv4_unpacked = _unpack_ipv4(ip_str)
-
-        if ipv4_unpacked:
-            return ipv4_unpacked
-
-    hextets = ip_str.split(":")
-
-    for index in range(len(hextets)):
-        # Remove leading zeroes
-        if '.' not in hextets[index]:
-            hextets[index] = hextets[index].lstrip('0')
-        if not hextets[index]:
-            hextets[index] = '0'
-
-        # Determine best hextet to compress
-        if hextets[index] == '0':
-            doublecolon_len += 1
-            if doublecolon_start == -1:
-                # Start of a sequence of zeros.
-                doublecolon_start = index
-            if doublecolon_len > best_doublecolon_len:
-                # This is the longest sequence of zeros so far.
-                best_doublecolon_len = doublecolon_len
-                best_doublecolon_start = doublecolon_start
-        else:
-            doublecolon_len = 0
-            doublecolon_start = -1
-
-    # Compress the most suitable hextet
-    if best_doublecolon_len > 1:
-        best_doublecolon_end = (best_doublecolon_start +
-                                best_doublecolon_len)
-        # For zeros at the end of the address.
-        if best_doublecolon_end == len(hextets):
-            hextets += ['']
-        hextets[best_doublecolon_start:best_doublecolon_end] = ['']
-        # For zeros at the beginning of the address.
-        if best_doublecolon_start == 0:
-            hextets = [''] + hextets
-
-    result = ":".join(hextets)
-
-    return result.lower()
-
-
-def _sanitize_ipv4_mapping(ip_str):
-    """
-    Sanitize IPv4 mapping in an expanded IPv6 address.
-
-    This converts ::ffff:0a0a:0a0a to ::ffff:10.10.10.10.
-    If there is nothing to sanitize, returns an unchanged
-    string.
-
-    Args:
-        ip_str: A string, the expanded IPv6 address.
-
-    Returns:
-        The sanitized output string, if applicable.
-    """
-    if not ip_str.lower().startswith('0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:'):
-        # not an ipv4 mapping
-        return ip_str
-
-    hextets = ip_str.split(':')
-
-    if '.' in hextets[-1]:
-        # already sanitized
-        return ip_str
-
-    ipv4_address = "%d.%d.%d.%d" % (
-        int(hextets[6][0:2], 16),
-        int(hextets[6][2:4], 16),
-        int(hextets[7][0:2], 16),
-        int(hextets[7][2:4], 16),
-    )
-
-    result = ':'.join(hextets[0:6])
-    result += ':' + ipv4_address
-
-    return result
-
-
-def _unpack_ipv4(ip_str):
-    """
-    Unpack an IPv4 address that was mapped in a compressed IPv6 address.
-
-    This converts 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:10.10.10.10 to 10.10.10.10.
-    If there is nothing to sanitize, returns None.
-
-    Args:
-        ip_str: A string, the expanded IPv6 address.
-
-    Returns:
-        The unpacked IPv4 address, or None if there was nothing to unpack.
-    """
-    if not ip_str.lower().startswith('0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:'):
-        return None
-
-    return ip_str.rsplit(':', 1)[1]
+    return str(addr)
 
 
 def is_valid_ipv6_address(ip_str):
@@ -155,118 +45,8 @@ def is_valid_ipv6_address(ip_str):
     Returns:
         A boolean, True if this is a valid IPv6 address.
     """
-    from django.core.validators import validate_ipv4_address
-
-    symbols_re = re.compile(r'^[0-9a-fA-F:.]+$')
-    if not symbols_re.match(ip_str):
+    try:
+        ipaddress.IPv6Address(ip_str)
+    except ValueError:
         return False
-
-    # We need to have at least one ':'.
-    if ':' not in ip_str:
-        return False
-
-    # We can only have one '::' shortener.
-    if ip_str.count('::') > 1:
-        return False
-
-    # '::' should be encompassed by start, digits or end.
-    if ':::' in ip_str:
-        return False
-
-    # A single colon can neither start nor end an address.
-    if ((ip_str.startswith(':') and not ip_str.startswith('::')) or
-            (ip_str.endswith(':') and not ip_str.endswith('::'))):
-        return False
-
-    # We can never have more than 7 ':' (1::2:3:4:5:6:7:8 is invalid)
-    if ip_str.count(':') > 7:
-        return False
-
-    # If we have no concatenation, we need to have 8 fields with 7 ':'.
-    if '::' not in ip_str and ip_str.count(':') != 7:
-        # We might have an IPv4 mapped address.
-        if ip_str.count('.') != 3:
-            return False
-
-    ip_str = _explode_shorthand_ip_string(ip_str)
-
-    # Now that we have that all squared away, let's check that each of the
-    # hextets are between 0x0 and 0xFFFF.
-    for hextet in ip_str.split(':'):
-        if hextet.count('.') == 3:
-            # If we have an IPv4 mapped address, the IPv4 portion has to
-            # be at the end of the IPv6 portion.
-            if not ip_str.split(':')[-1] == hextet:
-                return False
-            try:
-                validate_ipv4_address(hextet)
-            except ValidationError:
-                return False
-        else:
-            try:
-                # a value error here means that we got a bad hextet,
-                # something like 0xzzzz
-                if int(hextet, 16) < 0x0 or int(hextet, 16) > 0xFFFF:
-                    return False
-            except ValueError:
-                return False
     return True
-
-
-def _explode_shorthand_ip_string(ip_str):
-    """
-    Expand a shortened IPv6 address.
-
-    Args:
-        ip_str: A string, the IPv6 address.
-
-    Returns:
-        A string, the expanded IPv6 address.
-    """
-    if not _is_shorthand_ip(ip_str):
-        # We've already got a longhand ip_str.
-        return ip_str
-
-    hextet = ip_str.split('::')
-
-    # If there is a ::, we need to expand it with zeroes
-    # to get to 8 hextets - unless there is a dot in the last hextet,
-    # meaning we're doing v4-mapping
-    if '.' in ip_str.split(':')[-1]:
-        fill_to = 7
-    else:
-        fill_to = 8
-
-    if len(hextet) > 1:
-        sep = len(hextet[0].split(':')) + len(hextet[1].split(':'))
-        new_ip = hextet[0].split(':')
-
-        for __ in range(fill_to - sep):
-            new_ip.append('0000')
-        new_ip += hextet[1].split(':')
-
-    else:
-        new_ip = ip_str.split(':')
-
-    # Now need to make sure every hextet is 4 lower case characters.
-    # If a hextet is < 4 characters, we've got missing leading 0's.
-    ret_ip = []
-    for hextet in new_ip:
-        ret_ip.append(('0' * (4 - len(hextet)) + hextet).lower())
-    return ':'.join(ret_ip)
-
-
-def _is_shorthand_ip(ip_str):
-    """Determine if the address is shortened.
-
-    Args:
-        ip_str: A string, the IPv6 address.
-
-    Returns:
-        A boolean, True if the address is shortened.
-    """
-    if ip_str.count('::') == 1:
-        return True
-    if any(len(x) < 4 for x in ip_str.split(':')):
-        return True
-    return False