diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 76148f87..4e99176e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ os:
 julia:
   - 0.7
   - 1.0
+  - nightly
 notifications:
   email: false
 branches:
@@ -13,6 +14,9 @@ branches:
   - master
   - /release-.*/
   - /v(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/
+matrix:
+  allow_failures:
+  - julia: nightly  
 addons:
     apt:
         packages:
@@ -22,9 +26,9 @@ addons:
 script:
   - if [[ -a .git/shallow ]]; then git fetch --unshallow; fi
   - if [[ `uname` = "Linux" ]]; then TESTCMD="xvfb-run julia"; else TESTCMD="julia"; fi
-  - $TESTCMD --check-bounds=yes -e 'Pkg.clone(pwd()); Pkg.build("VegaLite"); Pkg.test("VegaLite"; coverage=true)'
+  - $TESTCMD --check-bounds=yes -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.clone(pwd()); Pkg.build("VegaLite"); Pkg.test("VegaLite"; coverage=true)'
 after_success:
   - julia -e 'cd(Pkg.dir("VegaLite")); Pkg.add("Coverage"); using Coverage; Codecov.submit(Codecov.process_folder())'
   - julia -e 'cd(Pkg.dir("VegaLite")); Pkg.add("Coverage"); using Coverage; Coveralls.submit(Coveralls.process_folder())'
   - julia -e 'Pkg.add("Documenter")'
-  - $TESTCMD -e 'cd(Pkg.dir("VegaLite")); include(joinpath("docs", "make.jl"))'
+  - julia -e 'cd(Pkg.dir("VegaLite")); include(joinpath("docs", "make.jl"))'
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 43974032..be326fe2 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# VegaLite.jl v0.4.0 Release Notes
+* Drop julia 0.6 support, add julia 0.7 support
+
 # VegaLite.jl v0.3.4 Release Notes
 * Disable check against schema from julia for now
 
diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index caa58d53..3c58d4f6 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 julia 0.7
-JSON
-Requires
-NodeJS
-Cairo
-Rsvg
-IteratorInterfaceExtensions 0.0.1
-TableTraits 0.0.2
-IterableTables
-FileIO 0.9.1
-DataValues
-MacroTools
-URIParser
-FilePaths
+JSON 0.19.0
+Requires 0.5.2
+NodeJS 0.5.1
+Cairo 0.5.6
+Rsvg 0.2.2
+IteratorInterfaceExtensions 0.1.1
+TableTraits 0.3.1
+IterableTables 0.8.3
+FileIO 1.0.1
+DataValues 0.4.4
+MacroTools 0.4.4
+URIParser 0.4.0
+FilePaths 0.7.0
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 61eddbc6..a8b3f7ed 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -2,16 +2,15 @@ environment:
   matrix:
   - julia_version: 0.7
   - julia_version: 1.0
+  - julia_version: nightly
 
 platform:
-  - x86 # 32-bit
+  # - x86 # 32-bit
   - x64 # 64-bit
 
-## uncomment the following lines to allow failures on nightly julia
-## (tests will run but not make your overall status red)
-# matrix:
-#   allow_failures:
-#   - julia_version: latest
+matrix:
+  allow_failures:
+  - julia_version: nightly
 
 branches:
   only:
diff --git a/docs/make.jl b/docs/make.jl
index 1a6bcb77..d4d8eacc 100644
--- a/docs/make.jl
+++ b/docs/make.jl
@@ -51,5 +51,5 @@ deploydocs(
     make = nothing,
     target = "build",
     repo = "github.com/fredo-dedup/VegaLite.jl.git",
-    julia = "0.6"
+    julia = "1.0"
 )