diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 260ae83b..533874a0 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ install:
   - conda create -n testenv --yes pip python=$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION
   - source activate testenv
   - conda install --yes -c https://conda.binstar.org/Quantopian numpy=$NUMPY_VERSION pandas=$PANDAS_VERSION scipy==$SCIPY_VERSION matplotlib Cython patsy statsmodels tornado pyparsing xlrd mock pytz requests six dateutil ta-lib logbook
-  - pip install --upgrade pip coverage
+  - pip install --upgrade pip coverage coveralls
   - pip install -r etc/requirements.txt
   - pip install -r etc/requirements_dev.txt
   - pip install -r etc/requirements_blaze.txt
diff --git a/docs/source/whatsnew/0.8.4.txt b/docs/source/whatsnew/0.8.4.txt
index 1938ca2a..3e211876 100644
--- a/docs/source/whatsnew/0.8.4.txt
+++ b/docs/source/whatsnew/0.8.4.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ Build
 * Makes zipline install requirements more flexible (:issue:`825`).
 * Use ``versioneer`` to manage the project ``__version__`` and setup.py version
   (:issue:`829`).
+* Fixed coveralls integration on travis build (:issue:`840`).
 
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