diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9194bfd40f..0000000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-# Based on
-# http://conda.pydata.org/docs/travis.html
-# https://github.com/xray/xray/blob/master/.travis.yml
-# https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/.travis.yml
-# https://github.com/Unidata/MetPy/blob/master/.travis.yml
-
-language: python
-sudo: false # if false, use TravisCI's container based build
-
-# assume linux if not specified
-# someday add os: osx to specify osx, but python not yet supported on Travis
-matrix:
-    include:
-    - python: 3.5
-      env: CONDA_ENV=py35-min
-    - python: 3.5
-      env: CONDA_ENV=py35
-    - python: 3.6
-      env:
-        - CONDA_ENV=py36
-        - TASK="coverage"
-        # not needed as of GH1038. deploy block cannot run without this.
-        # - DEPLOY_ENV="true"
-    - python: 3.6
-      env: CONDA_ENV=py37
-
-addons:
-    apt:
-        packages:
-            - ccache
-
-cache:
-    - ccache
-
-# setup miniconda for numpy, scipy, pandas, etc.
-before_install:
-    - echo "before install"
-    - export PYVER="3"
-    - if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]]; then
-        export OSSTR="MacOSX-x86_64.sh";
-      else
-        export OSSTR="Linux-x86_64.sh";
-        export PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH;
-      fi
-    - export BASE="http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda"
-    - export CONDAVER="4.6.14"
-    - wget $BASE$PYVER-$CONDAVER-$OSSTR -O miniconda.sh;
-    - bash miniconda.sh -b -p $HOME/miniconda
-    - export PATH="$HOME/miniconda/bin:$PATH"
-    - hash -r
-    - conda config --set always_yes yes --set changeps1 no
-    - conda update -q conda
-    - conda info -a
-
-install:
-    - echo "install"
-    - conda env create --file ci/requirements-$CONDA_ENV.yml
-    - source activate test_env # all envs are named test_env in the yml files
-    - conda list
-    - echo $PATH
-    - ls -l /home/travis/miniconda/envs/test_env/lib
-    - pip install -e .
-
-script:
-    - pytest pvlib --remote-data --cov=pvlib --cov-report term-missing
-
-after_script:
-  - if [[ $TASK == "coverage" ]]; then
-      pip install codecov;
-      codecov -e TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION;
-    fi
-
-after_success:
-    coveralls
-
-deploy:
-  - provider: pypi
-    user: wholmgren
-    password:
-      secure: cUaCm+/9BAZ7pn1e6+X1TBh4ysSW9dFnUHrYIcR8xefb/O5YVlzPZACt2pR0vYJuJ6vGWOK5VzigeKyh9dccIJUqntqsqNwQF3GkgcNNzIwDUKzsmbuKEgL1GCvJWaIvov0Sevfmg7eFpGbXdynw6IVFMBssz+eVCwEV5Ww8WbI=
-    distributions: sdist bdist_wheel
-    upload_docs: false
-    on:
-      repo: pvlib/pvlib-python
-      python: 3.6
-      condition: $DEPLOY_ENV == "true"
-      tags: true
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.8.0.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.8.0.rst
index 75e223b045..650dbbad1a 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.8.0.rst
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.8.0.rst
@@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ Testing
 * Add wrappers around the pandas assert_X_equal functions to accommodate the
   changed API and default precision thresholds in pandas 1.1.0
   (:issue:`1018`, :pull:`1021`)
-* Add github action for publishing all commits to
-  `test.pypi.org <https://test.pypi.org/project/pvlib/>`_ and tags to
+* Add github action for publishing tags to
   `pypi.org <https://pypi.org/project/pvlib/>`_.
+  (:issue:`950`, :pull:`1038`, :pull:`1039`)
+* Remove Travis CI configuration. (:issue:`950`)
 
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