diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e157b37..20b15f2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-group: deprecated-2017Q2
-
 sudo: required
 
 language: python
@@ -28,12 +26,13 @@ services:
 - docker
 
 before_install:
-- cat /etc/hosts
 - sudo service docker restart ; sleep 10  # https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/4778
 - docker network create --driver=bridge trough
 - docker run --detach --network=trough --hostname=rethinkdb --name=rethinkdb --publish=28015:28015 rethinkdb
 - docker run --detach --network=trough --hostname=hadoop --name=hadoop chalimartines/cdh5-pseudo-distributed
 - docker run --detach --network=trough --hostname=trough --volume="$PWD/tests/run-trough.sh:/run-trough.sh" --publish=6111:6111 --publish=6112:6112 --publish=6222:6222 --publish=6444:6444 python:3 bash /run-trough.sh
+- cat /etc/hosts
+- echo | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts # travis-ci default doesn't end with a newline 🙄
 - echo 127.0.0.1 rethinkdb | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
 - echo 127.0.0.1 hadoop | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
 - echo 127.0.0.1 trough | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts