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@@ -129,8 +129,6 @@ A minimal Travis setup could look like this (requires Rust 1.24.0 or greater):
 
 ```yaml
 language: rust
-rust:
-- nightly
 before_script:
 - rustup component add rustfmt-preview
 script: