diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 97bb52c355..530dd52453 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -14,12 +14,6 @@ matrix:
     - env: TOXENV=csslint
       before_install: npm install -g csslint
     # Python version specific
-    - python: '2.6'
-      env: TOXENV=py26-integration
-    - python: '2.6'
-      env: TOXENV=py26-min-req
-    - python: '2.6'
-      env: TOXENV=py26-unittests
     - python: '2.7'
       env: TOXENV=py27-integration
     - python: '2.7'
diff --git a/docs/about/release-notes.md b/docs/about/release-notes.md
index 437cd3652e..107a26609f 100644
--- a/docs/about/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/about/release-notes.md
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ TODO...
 
 ### Other Changes and Additions to Version 1.0.0
 
-TODO...
+* Support for Python 2.6 has been dropped (#165)
 
 ## Version 0.16.3 (2017-04-04)
 
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 28e28f275e..d7e3eb8aec 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ $ pip --version
 pip 1.5.2
 ```
 
-MkDocs supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and pypy.
+MkDocs supports Python versions 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and pypy.
 
 #### Installing Python
 
diff --git a/mkdocs/relative_path_ext.py b/mkdocs/relative_path_ext.py
index a8c41ed42e..253d6784ca 100644
--- a/mkdocs/relative_path_ext.py
+++ b/mkdocs/relative_path_ext.py
@@ -51,12 +51,6 @@
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def _iter(node):
-    # TODO: Remove when dropping Python 2.6. Replace this
-    # function call with note.iter()
-    return [node] + node.findall('.//*')
-
-
 def path_to_url(url, nav, strict):
 
     scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment = (
@@ -116,7 +110,7 @@ def run(self, root):
         tags and then makes them relative based on the site navigation
         """
 
-        for element in _iter(root):
+        for element in root.iter():
 
             if element.tag == 'a':
                 key = 'href'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cdafa1ddea..49273d8fa8 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 import os
 import sys
 
-PY26 = sys.version_info[:2] == (2, 6)
-
 
 long_description = (
     "MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator "
@@ -61,7 +59,7 @@ def get_packages(package):
         'click>=3.3',
         'Jinja2>=2.7.1',
         'livereload>=2.5.1',
-        'Markdown>=2.3.1,<2.5' if PY26 else 'Markdown>=2.3.1',
+        'Markdown>=2.3.1',
         'PyYAML>=3.10',
         'tornado>=4.1',
     ],
@@ -83,7 +81,6 @@ def get_packages(package):
         'Operating System :: OS Independent',
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 9066992e79..f751ccb44a 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 [tox]
 envlist =
-    py{26,27,33,34,35}-{unittests,integration,min-req},
+    py{27,33,34,35}-{unittests,integration,min-req},
     flake8, markdown-lint, linkchecker, jshint, csslint
 
 [testenv]
 passenv = LANG
 deps=
-    py{26,27,33,34,35,py,py3}-{unittests,integration}: -rrequirements/project.txt
-    py{26,27,33,34,35,py,py3}-min-req: -rrequirements/project-min.txt
-    py{26,27,33,34,35,py,py3}-{unittests,min-req}: -rrequirements/test.txt
+    py{27,33,34,35,py,py3}-{unittests,integration}: -rrequirements/project.txt
+    py{27,33,34,35,py,py3}-min-req: -rrequirements/project-min.txt
+    py{27,33,34,35,py,py3}-{unittests,min-req}: -rrequirements/test.txt
 commands=
-    py{26,27,33,34,35,py,py3}-{unittests,min-req}: {envbindir}/nosetests --with-coverage --cover-package mkdocs mkdocs
-    py{26,27,33,34,35,py,py3}-integration: {envpython} -m mkdocs.tests.integration --output={envtmpdir}/builds
+    py{27,33,34,35,py,py3}-{unittests,min-req}: {envbindir}/nosetests --with-coverage --cover-package mkdocs mkdocs
+    py{27,33,34,35,py,py3}-integration: {envpython} -m mkdocs.tests.integration --output={envtmpdir}/builds
 
 [testenv:flake8]
 basepython = python2.7