diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f79a267d..5e5a33eb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ php:
   - 5.4
   # aliased to a recent 5.5.x version
   - 5.5
+  # aliased to a recent 5.6.x version
+  - 5.6
 
 # optionally specify a list of environments, for example to test different RDBMS
 env: