diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d9b9ccb..7317bec 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 language: python
 python:
-  - "2.7"
-  - "3.3"
+  - "3.8"
 install:
   - pip install -r test_requirements.txt
-  - pip install . --use-mirrors
+  - pip install .
 script: nosetests
diff --git a/drf_ujson/parsers.py b/drf_ujson/parsers.py
index 9e153ee..18942f1 100644
--- a/drf_ujson/parsers.py
+++ b/drf_ujson/parsers.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from django.conf import settings
-from rest_framework.compat import six
-from rest_framework.parsers import BaseParser, ParseError
+from rest_framework.parsers import BaseParser
+from rest_framework.exceptions import ParseError
 from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer
 import ujson
 
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ def parse(self, stream, media_type=None, parser_context=None):
             data = stream.read().decode(encoding)
             return ujson.loads(data)
         except ValueError as exc:
-            raise ParseError('JSON parse error - %s' % six.text_type(exc))
+            raise ParseError('JSON parse error - %s' % str(exc))
diff --git a/drf_ujson/renderers.py b/drf_ujson/renderers.py
index 87b7b66..73b604c 100644
--- a/drf_ujson/renderers.py
+++ b/drf_ujson/renderers.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
-from rest_framework.compat import six
 from rest_framework.renderers import BaseRenderer
 import ujson
 
@@ -22,8 +21,6 @@ def render(self, data, *args, **kwargs):
             return bytes()
 
         ret = ujson.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=self.ensure_ascii)
-
-        # force return value to unicode
-        if isinstance(ret, six.text_type):
+        if isinstance(ret, str):
             return bytes(ret.encode('utf-8'))
         return ret
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ba4e693..c69459d 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='drf_ujson',
-    version='1.2',
+    version='2.0',
     description='Django Rest Framework UJSON Renderer',
     author='Gizmag',
     author_email='tech@gizmag.com',