diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index f39642c5a8857e129e64343d211ec8c2e84e2914..14936f9b1503fbbfeaa67390440c5c4fcfee6b48 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -113,9 +113,7 @@ Pylint:
   # Needed to avoid name shadowing issues when running from source directory.
   - PROJECT_INSTALL_FLAGS="--editable"
   - export PY_EXE=python3
-  # Pin to numpy 1.15
-  # See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2721
-  - EXTRA_INSTALL="Cython pybind11 numpy==1.15 mako matplotlib"
+  - EXTRA_INSTALL="Cython pybind11 numpy mako matplotlib"
   - curl -L -O -k https://gitlab.tiker.net/inducer/ci-support/raw/master/prepare-and-run-pylint.sh
   - ". ./prepare-and-run-pylint.sh pytential test/test_*.py"
   tags: