diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb87f4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+name: lint 
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+
+  build:
+    name: Build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        govers: [ 1.14, 1.16 ]
+    steps:
+
+    - name: Set up Go version
+      uses: actions/setup-go@v1
+      with:
+        go-version: ${{ matrix.govers }}
+      id: go
+
+    - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
+      uses: actions/checkout@v1
+
+    - name: Build
+      run: |
+        export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin
+        GOBIN=$PWD/bin make all
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 10aa284..0000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-language: go
-go:
-- 1.12.x
-- 1.13.x
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b929527..54f3029 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ all: ./bin/golangci-lint
 	go test -cover ./...
 
 ./bin/golangci-lint:
-	curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh| sh -s v1.27.0
+	curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh| sh -s v1.40.1
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6ac367c..1b585ad 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # ac
 
-[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/signalsciences/ac?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/signalsciences/ac) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/signalsciences/ac.svg?branch=main)](https://travis-ci.org/signalsciences/ac)
+[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/signalsciences/ac?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/signalsciences/ac) [![Actions Status](https://github.com/signalsciences/ac/workflows/lint/badge.svg)](https://github.com/signalsciences/ac/actions)
 
 Golang implementation of Aho-Corasick for rapid substring matching on either byte
 strings or ASCII strings.
@@ -11,15 +11,6 @@ License).  The fork/changes were needed for a specific application usages
 that are incomptabile with the original library.  Some other minor optimizations 
 around memory and setup were also done.
 
-## :rotating_light: NOTICE :rotating_light:
-
-Effective **May 17th 2021** the default branch will change from `master` to `main`. Run the following commands to update a local clone:
-```
-git branch -m master main
-git fetch origin
-git branch -u origin/main main
-git remote set-head origin -a
-```
 
 ## Examples