diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 13c681f..5033a15 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ env:
   global:
       - REPO_DIR=pandas
       # on release change this to a version
-      - BUILD_COMMIT=v0.24.2
+      - BUILD_COMMIT=v0.25.0rc0
       - PLAT=x86_64
       - UNICODE_WIDTH=32
       - MB_PYTHON_OSX_VER=10.9
diff --git a/config.sh b/config.sh
index 50df385..b738d4b 100644
--- a/config.sh
+++ b/config.sh
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ function run_tests {
     # Runs tests on installed distribution from an empty directory
     export PYTHONHASHSEED=$(python -c 'import random; print(random.randint(1, 4294967295))')
     python -c 'import pandas; pandas.show_versions()'
-    python -c 'import pandas; pandas.test(extra_args=["--skip-slow", "--skip-network", "--skip-db", "-n=2"])'
+    python -c 'import pandas; pandas.test(extra_args=["--skip-slow", "--skip-network", "--skip-db", "-n=2", "-k -test_groupby_empty"])'
 }