diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7a5ea5437..d2731e6d8 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# http://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/travis_ci.html
+
 language: haskell
 
 branches:
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ cache:
 before_install:
   - mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
   - export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
-  - travis_retry curl -L https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/releases/download/v0.1.3.1/stack-0.1.3.1-x86_64-linux.gz | gunzip > ~/.local/bin/stack
+  - travis_retry curl -L https://www.stackage.org/stack/linux-x86_64 | tar xz --wildcards --strip-components=1 -C ~/.local/bin '*/stack'
   - chmod a+x ~/.local/bin/stack
 
 install: