diff --git a/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/serializers.py b/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/serializers.py
index ffa74bb60e..0388b97671 100644
--- a/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/serializers.py
+++ b/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/serializers.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.models import LegacyNamespace
 from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.models import LegacyRole
 from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.models import LegacyRoleDownloadCount
+from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.utils import sort_versions
 
 
 class LegacyNamespacesSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
@@ -296,7 +297,8 @@ def get_summary_fields(self, obj):
 
         versions = obj.full_metadata.get('versions', [])
         if versions:
-            # the versions data should have been sorted at sync or import time
+            # FIXME - we can't assume they're all sorted yet
+            versions = sort_versions(versions)
             versions = versions[::-1]
             if len(versions) > 10:
                 versions = versions[:11]
@@ -449,6 +451,7 @@ def get_previous_link(self, obj):
     def get_results(self, obj):
 
         versions = obj.full_metadata.get('versions', [])
+        versions = sort_versions(versions)
 
         results = []
 
diff --git a/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/tasks.py b/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/tasks.py
index 7fd40138a7..edad540bbf 100644
--- a/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/tasks.py
+++ b/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/tasks.py
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 import tempfile
 import uuid
 
-import semantic_version
-
 from django.db import transaction
 
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
@@ -24,6 +22,8 @@
 from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.models import LegacyNamespace
 from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.models import LegacyRole
 from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.models import LegacyRoleDownloadCount
+from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.utils import sort_versions
+from galaxy_ng.app.api.v1.utils import parse_version_tag
 
 from git import Repo
 
@@ -31,15 +31,6 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def parse_version_tag(value):
-    value = str(value)
-    if not value:
-        raise ValueError('Empty version value')
-    if value[0].lower() == 'v':
-        value = value[1:]
-    return semantic_version.Version(value)
-
-
 def find_real_role(github_user, github_repo):
     """
     Given the github_user and github_repo attributes, find a matching
@@ -173,14 +164,6 @@ def do_git_checkout(clone_url, checkout_path, github_reference):
     return gitrepo, github_reference, last_commit
 
 
-def sort_versions(versions):
-    """
-    Use ansible-core's LooseVersion util to sort the versions.
-    """
-    sorted_versions = sorted(versions, key=lambda x: LooseVersion(x['tag'].lower()))
-    return sorted_versions
-
-
 def normalize_versions(versions):
 
     # convert old integer based IDs to uuid
@@ -206,7 +189,7 @@ def normalize_versions(versions):
             versions.remove(version)
             continue
         lver = LooseVersion(version['tag'].lower())
-        if not all(isinstance(x, int) for x in lver.version):
+        if not any(isinstance(x, int) for x in lver.version):
             versions.remove(version)
 
     return versions
diff --git a/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/utils.py b/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1435a9a899
--- /dev/null
+++ b/galaxy_ng/app/api/v1/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import semantic_version
+from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
+
+
+def parse_version_tag(value):
+    value = str(value)
+    if not value:
+        raise ValueError('Empty version value')
+    if value[0].lower() == 'v':
+        value = value[1:]
+    return semantic_version.Version(value)
+
+
+def sort_versions(versions):
+    """
+    Use ansible-core's LooseVersion util to sort the version dicts by the tag key.
+    """
+    sorted_versions = sorted(versions, key=lambda x: LooseVersion(x['tag'].lower()))
+    return sorted_versions