diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index ebf121320d6e6c910e9d05f849913191592c0531..cb732c519bd3586e9704c61325f487671dc7a008 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -131,9 +131,7 @@ Pylint:
   # Pylint won't find the Cython bits without this
   - 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:
diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index a5dd67776f8a2fcf44189b8bc1bac0894351b782..20bf4d1496faf7bc73881ba56d22ee4ac171d0d0 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ jobs:
         script: |
             set -e
             CONDA_ENVIRONMENT=.test-conda-env-py3-pylint.yml
-            sed 's/numpy/numpy=1.15/' .test-conda-env-py3.yml > $CONDA_ENVIRONMENT
+            cp .test-conda-env-py3.yml $CONDA_ENVIRONMENT
             echo "- matplotlib" >> $CONDA_ENVIRONMENT
             echo "-------------------------------------------"
             cat $CONDA_ENVIRONMENT