diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d8a9f424..000000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-os: linux
-language: python
-
-cache:
-  pip: true
-  directories:
-    - $HOME/.ccache
-    - libs
-
-python:
-  - nightly 
-  - 3.10
-  - 2.7
-  - 3.9
-  - 3.8
-  - 3.7
-  - 3.6
-  - 3.5
-
-env:
-  global:
-    - USE_CCACHE=1
-    - CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=pch_defines,time_macros
-    - CCACHE_COMPRESS=1
-    - CCACHE_MAXSIZE=70M
-    - PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH"
-    - LIBXML2_VERSION=2.9.10
-    - LIBXSLT_VERSION=1.1.34
-  matrix:
-    - STATIC_DEPS=false
-    - STATIC_DEPS=true
-
-matrix:
-  include:
-    - python: 3.8
-      env:
-        - STATIC_DEPS=false
-        - EXTRA_DEPS="docutils pygments sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme"
-      script: make html
-    - python: 3.8
-      env:
-        - STATIC_DEPS=false
-        - EXTRA_DEPS="coverage<5"
-    - python: 3.8
-      env:
-        - STATIC_DEPS=true
-        - LIBXML2_VERSION=2.9.2  # minimum version requirements
-        - LIBXSLT_VERSION=1.1.27
-    - python: pypy
-      env: STATIC_DEPS=false
-    - python: pypy3
-      env: STATIC_DEPS=false
-    - python: 3.8
-      env: STATIC_DEPS=false
-      arch: arm64
-    - python: 3.8
-      env: STATIC_DEPS=true
-      arch: arm64
-    - python: 3.8
-      env: STATIC_DEPS=false
-      arch: ppc64le
-    - python: 3.8
-      env: STATIC_DEPS=true
-      arch: ppc64le
-  allow_failures:
-    - python: nightly
-    - python: pypy
-    - python: pypy3
-
-install:
-    - pip install -U pip wheel
-    - if [ -z "${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION##*-dev}" ];
-        then pip install --install-option=--no-cython-compile https://github.com/cython/cython/archive/master.zip;
-        else pip install -r requirements.txt;
-      fi
-    - pip install -U beautifulsoup4 cssselect html5lib rnc2rng==2.6.5 ${EXTRA_DEPS}
-
-script:
-  - CFLAGS="-O0 -g -fPIC" python -u setup.py build_ext --inplace
-      $(if [ -n "${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION##2.*}" -a -n "${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION##3.[34]*}" ]; then echo -n " -j7 "; fi )
-      $(if [ -n "$EXTRA_DEPS" -a -z "${EXTRA_DEPS##*coverage*}" ]; then echo -n "--with-coverage"; fi )
-  - ccache -s || true
-  - CFLAGS="-O0 -g -fPIC" PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x make test
-  - ccache -s || true
-  - python setup.py install
-  - python -c "from lxml import etree"
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e8705ab92..a0434b379 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Crypto currencies do not fit into that ambition.
 .. _`doc/main.txt`: https://github.com/lxml/lxml/blob/master/doc/main.txt
 .. _`INSTALL.txt`: http://lxml.de/installation.html
 
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