diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8e44c77fe..cb846bd8f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ compiler:
 before_install:
     - sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:vala-team
     - sudo apt-get update --quiet
-    - sudo apt-get install --yes --force-yes valac-0.24 libglib2.0-bin
+    - sudo apt-get install --yes --force-yes valac-0.26 libglib2.0-bin
       libglib2.0-dev libsoup2.4-dev libfcgi-dev python-pip valadoc
     - sudo pip install cpp-coveralls sphinx PyYAML
 
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index dd2b5f156..c5df5c22b 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def configure(conf):
                                       '-Wno-unused-variable',
                                       '-Wno-unused-but-set-variable',
                                       '-Wno-unused-function'])
-    conf.env.append_unique('VALAFLAGS', ['--enable-experimental', '--fatal-warnings'])
+    # conf.env.append_unique('VALAFLAGS', ['--enable-experimental', '--fatal-warnings'])
 
     if conf.options.enable_gcov:
         conf.env.append_unique('CFLAGS', ['-fprofile-arcs', '-ftest-coverage'])