diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f4f893a..74cc31a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ sudo: required
 dist: trusty
 group: deprecated-2017Q2  # https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-06-21-trusty-updates-2017-Q2-launch
 before_install:
+- sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools pip
 - sudo pip install ansible==2.1.3.0
 install:
 - ansible-playbook --extra-vars="brozzler_pip_name=file://$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR#egg=brozzler user=travis" --inventory-file=ansible/hosts-localhost ansible/playbook.yml
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f80d856..889a2d5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b12.dev269',
+        version='1.1b12.dev270',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',