diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 79bfd9a59c..7116227deb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ script:
   - if [ "$PLONE_VERSION" == "5.2.x" ] && [ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '3.7' ]; then bin/test-no-sphinx-warnings ; fi
 after_success:
   - bin/test-coverage
-  - pip install coverage==3.7.1 coveralls
+  - pip install coverage==5.1 coveralls
   - coveralls
   # - docker login -u="$DOCKER_USERNAME" -p="$DOCKER_PASSWORD"
   # - if [ ! $TRAVIS_TAG ]; then docker build --tag plone/plone.restapi:plone-$PLONE_VERSION-$(git rev-parse HEAD) --tag plone/plone.restapi:latest . ; fi
diff --git a/plone-5.1.x.cfg b/plone-5.1.x.cfg
index d8188b7cc1..7a6cf150ed 100644
--- a/plone-5.1.x.cfg
+++ b/plone-5.1.x.cfg
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ extends =
     versions.cfg
 
 [versions]
+coverage = 5.1
+
 # fixes: SyntaxError: invalid syntax (more.py, line 340)
 zipp = 0.5.2
 
diff --git a/plone-5.2.x.cfg b/plone-5.2.x.cfg
index 7b679ba6b2..2f3825644a 100644
--- a/plone-5.2.x.cfg
+++ b/plone-5.2.x.cfg
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ find-links += http://dist.plone.org/thirdparty/
 [versions]
 plone.restapi =
 astunparse = 1.6.2
+coverage = 5.1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/versions.cfg b/versions.cfg
index 3a10835f39..ec465537ba 100644
--- a/versions.cfg
+++ b/versions.cfg
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ plone.recipe.varnish = 1.3
 
 # Code-analysis
 plone.recipe.codeanalysis = 3.0.1
-coverage = 3.7.1
+coverage = 5.1
 pep8 = 1.7.1
 flake8 = 3.5.0
 flake8-coding = 1.3.2