diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index dba4e90..36c4c07 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ install:
   - sudo apt-get install g++-4.8
   - curl -O https://capnproto.org/capnproto-c++-0.4.1.tar.gz
   - tar zxf capnproto-c++-0.4.1.tar.gz
-  - export CC=gcc-4.7
-  - export CXX=g++-4.7
+  - export CC=gcc-4.8
+  - export CXX=g++-4.8
   - cd capnproto-c++-0.4.1 && ./configure && make -j5 && sudo make install
 script: make