diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 686c85380a..2a355954a4 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -38,5 +38,6 @@ branches:
     only:
       - master
       - ora-staff-grading
+      - upgrade-numpy
 after_success:
   coveralls
diff --git a/requirements/wheels.txt b/requirements/wheels.txt
index a296282ebb..3cafb5e81d 100644
--- a/requirements/wheels.txt
+++ b/requirements/wheels.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 # http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/pip_wheel.html
 
 lxml==3.4.4
-numpy==1.6.2
+numpy==1.11.0
 scikit-learn==0.12.1
 scipy==0.14.0
diff --git a/scripts/data/wheelhouse/numpy-1.11.0-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl b/scripts/data/wheelhouse/numpy-1.11.0-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
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index 0000000000..6776bc8ee3
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diff --git a/scripts/data/wheelhouse/numpy-1.6.2-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl b/scripts/data/wheelhouse/numpy-1.6.2-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
deleted file mode 100644
index ec0cb364a0..0000000000
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c77d760a11..cc588da99f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def load_requirements(*requirements_paths):
 
 setup(
     name='ora2',
-    version='1.1.5',
+    version='1.1.6',
     author='edX',
     url='http://github.com/edx/edx-ora2',
     description='edx-ora2',