diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 2edb5ca0..f48d3df6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ php:
   - 5.5
   - 5.6
   - 7.0
+  - 7.1
 
 before_script:
   - if [[ $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION = '5.3' || $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION = '5.4' ]]; then PHP_COVERALLS_VERSION="~1.0"; else PHP_COVERALLS_VERSION=""; fi
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index d0da9aa3..0929afd3 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     "issues" : "https://github.com/sugarcrm/tidbit/issues"
   },
   "require" : {
-    "php": ">=5.3.27"
+    "php": ">=5.4"
   },
   "require-dev": {
     "phpunit/phpunit": "4.*",