diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 76118118..8f06d524 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 language: python
-dist: xenial    # required for Python 3.7 (travis-ci/travis-ci#9069)
+dist: bionic
 python: "3.7"
 cache: pip
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bcf1d535..9b54f76a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ progressbar
 scipy
 tqdm
 opencv-python
-pycairo==1.19.1
+pycairo
 pydub
 pygments
 pyreadline; sys_platform == 'win32'