diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index c4a1c89aed5c55d42a03c48d095d174763e26ddf..913e7ab2ab8690e466daf12adc78715bde2bfd70 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ matrix:
   - python: 3.2
     env:
     - NUMPYSPEC===1.7.1
+    - SPHINXSPEC===1.2
   - python: 3.3
     env:
     - NUMPYSPEC===1.8.0
@@ -19,8 +20,8 @@ before_install:
 - sudo apt-get install -qq --force-yes libboost-all-dev libblitz1-dev libatlas-dev libatlas-base-dev liblapack-dev libhdf5-serial-dev texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
 - if [ -n "${NUMPYSPEC}" ]; then sudo apt-get install -qq gfortran; fi
 - if [ -n "${NUMPYSPEC}" ]; then pip install --find-links http://wheels.astropy.org/ --find-links http://wheels2.astropy.org/ --use-wheel numpy$NUMPYSPEC; fi
-- pip install --find-links http://wheels.astropy.org/ --find-links http://wheels2.astropy.org/ --use-wheel sphinx nose==1.3.0 jinja2==2.6 cpp-coveralls pygments==1.6
-- pip install coveralls
+- pip install --find-links http://wheels.astropy.org/ --find-links http://wheels2.astropy.org/ --use-wheel sphinx$SPHINXSPEC nose==1.3.0 jinja2==2.6 cpp-coveralls pygments==1.6
+- pip install --pre coveralls>=1.0a
 install:
 - python bootstrap-buildout.py
 - CPPFLAGS=--coverage LDFLAGS=--coverage ./bin/buildout