diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5b1d7a1..86a1b31 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,29 +1,54 @@
+sudo: false
 language: python
-python:
-  - "2.7"
 
-env:
-  - DJANGO_VERSION=1.6
-  - DJANGO_VERSION=1.7
-  - DJANGO_VERSION=1.8
+matrix:
+    include:
+        - python: 3.3
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.6 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.3.3
+        - python: 3.3
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.7 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.3.3
+        - python: 3.3
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.8 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.3.3
+        - python: 2.7
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.6 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.3.3
+        - python: 2.7
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.7 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.3.3
+        - python: 2.7
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.8 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.3.3
+        - python: 2.7
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.6 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.2.19
+        - python: 2.7
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.7 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.2.19
+        - python: 2.7
+          env: DJANGO_VERSION=1.8 XAPIAN_VERSION=1.2.19
+
+addons:
+  apt:
+    sources:
+    - ubuntu-toolchain-r-test
+    packages:
+    # Xapian requires uuid-dev, Xapian ==1.3.3 requires compilers with c++11.
+    - uuid-dev
+    - gcc-4.8
+    - g++-4.8
 
-# command to install dependencies
 install:
+  # install Xapian
+  - CXX=g++-4.8 ./install_xapian.sh $XAPIAN_VERSION
+
   - pip install Django==$DJANGO_VERSION
-  - cd ..
-  - git clone https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack.git
-  - sudo apt-get install -qq libxapian22 xapian-tools python-xapian
-  - ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/.
   - pip install coveralls
 
-# move xapian-haystack to django-haystack
-before_script:
+  # install Django haystack
+  - cd ..  # move from xapian-haystack
+  - git clone https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack.git
+
+  # cp xapian-haystack to django-haystack
   - cp xapian-haystack/xapian_backend.py django-haystack/haystack/backends
   - cp -r xapian-haystack/tests/* django-haystack/test_haystack/
   - cp xapian-haystack/tests/xapian_tests/__init__.py django-haystack/test_haystack/
   - cp xapian-haystack/.coveragerc django-haystack/
 
-# command to run tests
 script:
   - cd django-haystack/
   - PYTHONPATH=`pwd` coverage run `which django-admin.py` test test_haystack.xapian_tests --settings=test_haystack.xapian_settings
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 66d205b..ec8ecee 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -30,17 +30,17 @@ Xapian-Haystack provides all the standard features of Haystack:
 Requirements
 ------------
 
-- Python 2.4+ (Python 3.3 not support `yet <http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/346>`_).
+- Python 2.7 or 3.3
 - Django 1.6+
-- Django-Haystack 2.0.X
-- Xapian 1.0.13+
+- Django-Haystack 2
+- Xapian 1.2.13+
 
 In particular, we build this backend on `Travis`_ using:
 
-- Python 2.7.6
+- Python 2.7 and 3.3
 - Django 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8
 - Django-Haystack (master)
-- Xapian 1.2.8 (libxapian22)
+- Xapian 1.2.21 and 1.3.3
 
 
 Installation
diff --git a/install_xapian.sh b/install_xapian.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..586b19c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install_xapian.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# first argument of the script is Xapian version (e.g. 1.2.19)
+VERSION=$1
+
+# prepare
+mkdir $VIRTUAL_ENV/packages && cd $VIRTUAL_ENV/packages
+
+CORE=xapian-core-$VERSION
+BINDINGS=xapian-bindings-$VERSION
+
+# download
+echo "Downloading source..."
+curl -O http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/$VERSION/${CORE}.tar.xz
+curl -O http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/$VERSION/${BINDINGS}.tar.xz
+
+# extract
+echo "Extracting source..."
+tar xf ${CORE}.tar.xz
+tar xf ${BINDINGS}.tar.xz
+
+# install
+echo "Installing Xapian-core..."
+cd $VIRTUAL_ENV/packages/${CORE}
+./configure --prefix=$VIRTUAL_ENV && make && make install
+
+PYV=`python -c "import sys;t='{v[0]}'.format(v=list(sys.version_info[:1]));sys.stdout.write(t)";`
+
+if [ $PYV = "2" ]; then
+    PYTHON_FLAG=--with-python
+else
+    PYTHON_FLAG=--with-python3
+fi
+
+if [ $VERSION = "1.3.3" ]; then
+    XAPIAN_CONFIG=$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/xapian-config-1.3
+else
+    XAPIAN_CONFIG=
+fi
+
+echo "Installing Xapian-bindings..."
+cd $VIRTUAL_ENV/packages/${BINDINGS}
+./configure --prefix=$VIRTUAL_ENV $PYTHON_FLAG XAPIAN_CONFIG=$XAPIAN_CONFIG && make && make install
+
+# clean
+rm -rf $VIRTUAL_ENV/packages
+
+# test
+python -c "import xapian"