diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 27713f8..dd6f03e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ before_script:
   - composer validate
   - composer require --no-update silverstripe/recipe-core:^1.0
   - composer require --no-update phpunit/phpunit:^5.7
-  - if [[ $CORE_RELEASE == 4.2 ]]; composer require --no-update silverstripe/versioned ^1.2; fi
+  - if [[ $CORE_RELEASE == 4.2 ]]; composer require --no-update silverstripe/versioned:^1.2; fi
   - if [[ $DB == PGSQL ]]; then composer require silverstripe/postgresql:2.0.x-dev --prefer-dist --no-update; fi
   - if [[ $DB == SQLITE ]]; then composer require silverstripe/sqlite3:2.1.x-dev --prefer-dist --no-update; fi
   - composer install --prefer-dist --no-interaction --no-progress --no-suggest --optimize-autoloader --verbose --profile