diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/686_fix_deprecated_imports.yml b/changelogs/fragments/686_fix_deprecated_imports.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e11c20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/686_fix_deprecated_imports.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - plugins/action/synchronize.py - fix deprecated ``ansible.module_utils._text`` and ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat`` imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/686).
+  - plugins/action/synchronize.py - fix deprecated ``ansible.module_utils.six`` imports for CI compliance.
+  - plugins/modules/synchronize.py - fix deprecated ``ansible.module_utils._text`` import (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/686).
+  - plugins/modules/synchronize.py - fix deprecated ``ansible.module_utils.six`` imports for CI compliance.
+  - mount - fix deprecated ``ansible.module_utils._text`` import (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/686).
+  - mount - fix deprecated ``ansible.module_utils.six`` imports for CI compliance.
diff --git a/plugins/action/synchronize.py b/plugins/action/synchronize.py
index a171a2b..0a2efc5 100644
--- a/plugins/action/synchronize.py
+++ b/plugins/action/synchronize.py
@@ -18,12 +18,11 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 import os.path
+import shlex
+from collections.abc import MutableSequence
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableSequence
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.plugins.loader import connection_loader
@@ -417,7 +416,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
             # Replicate what we do in the module argumentspec handling for lists
             if not isinstance(_tmp_args.get('rsync_opts'), MutableSequence):
                 tmp_rsync_opts = _tmp_args.get('rsync_opts', [])
-                if isinstance(tmp_rsync_opts, string_types):
+                if isinstance(tmp_rsync_opts, str):
                     tmp_rsync_opts = tmp_rsync_opts.split(',')
                 elif isinstance(tmp_rsync_opts, (int, float)):
                     tmp_rsync_opts = [to_text(tmp_rsync_opts)]
@@ -428,13 +427,13 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
 
             if self._remote_transport in DOCKER + PODMAN:
                 if become and self._play_context.become_user:
-                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex_quote('%s exec -u %s -i' % (self._docker_cmd, self._play_context.become_user)))
+                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex.quote('%s exec -u %s -i' % (self._docker_cmd, self._play_context.become_user)))
                 elif user is not None:
-                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex_quote('%s exec -u %s -i' % (self._docker_cmd, user)))
+                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex.quote('%s exec -u %s -i' % (self._docker_cmd, user)))
                 else:
-                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex_quote('%s exec -i' % self._docker_cmd))
+                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex.quote('%s exec -i' % self._docker_cmd))
             elif self._remote_transport in BUILDAH:
-                _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex_quote('buildah run --'))
+                _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex.quote('buildah run --'))
 
         # run the module and store the result
         result.update(self._execute_module('ansible.posix.synchronize', module_args=_tmp_args, task_vars=task_vars))
diff --git a/plugins/modules/mount.py b/plugins/modules/mount.py
index 6e2425b..682fd4c 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/mount.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/mount.py
@@ -225,8 +225,7 @@ import platform
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible_collections.ansible.posix.plugins.module_utils.mount import ismount
-from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 
 
@@ -279,7 +278,7 @@ def _set_mount_save_old(module, args):
     old_lines = []
     exists = False
     changed = False
-    escaped_args = dict([(k, _escape_fstab(v)) for k, v in iteritems(args)])
+    escaped_args = dict([(k, _escape_fstab(v)) for k, v in args.items()])
     new_line = '%(src)s %(name)s %(fstype)s %(opts)s %(dump)s %(passno)s\n'
 
     if platform.system() == 'SunOS':
diff --git a/plugins/modules/synchronize.py b/plugins/modules/synchronize.py
index d65e08f..5faac44 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/synchronize.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/synchronize.py
@@ -367,9 +367,13 @@ EXAMPLES = r'''
 import os
 import errno
 
+try:
+    from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
+except ImportError:
+    from pipes import quote as shlex_quote
+
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 
 
 client_addr = None
diff --git a/tests/sanity/ignore-2.21.txt b/tests/sanity/ignore-2.21.txt
index 9b5e162..2abdfc0 100644
--- a/tests/sanity/ignore-2.21.txt
+++ b/tests/sanity/ignore-2.21.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 tests/utils/shippable/timing.py shebang
-plugins/action/synchronize.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/callback/cgroup_perf_recap.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/modules/mount.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/modules/sysctl.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/shell/csh.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/shell/fish.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from