diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index cc764bea0d..9860cd03a9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ before_install:
     - sh -c 'if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm-nightly" ]; then echo "" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/conf.d/xdebug.ini; fi;'
     - sh -c 'if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm-nightly" ]; then echo "extension = mongo.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini; fi;'
     - sh -c 'if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm-nightly" ] && [ $(php -r "echo PHP_MINOR_VERSION;") -le 4 ]; then echo "extension = apc.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini; fi;'
-    - sh -c 'if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm-nightly" ]; then echo "extension = memcached.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini; fi;'
+    - sh -c 'if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm-nightly" ]; then pecl install -f memcached-2.1.0; fi;'
     - sh -c 'if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm-nightly" ]; then echo "extension = memcache.so" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini; fi;'
     - sudo locale-gen fr_FR.UTF-8 && sudo update-locale
 #    - sh -c 'if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "5.3.3" ]; then phpunit --self-update; fi;'
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Tests/Session/Storage/Handler/MemcachedSessionHandlerTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Tests/Session/Storage/Handler/MemcachedSessionHandlerTest.php
index 985fae4888..036760cb70 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Tests/Session/Storage/Handler/MemcachedSessionHandlerTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Tests/Session/Storage/Handler/MemcachedSessionHandlerTest.php
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ class MemcachedSessionHandlerTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             $this->markTestSkipped('Skipped tests Memcached class is not present');
         }
 
+        if (version_compare(phpversion('memcached'), '2.2.0', '>=')) {
+            $this->markTestSkipped('Tests can only be run with memcached extension 2.1.0 or lower');
+        }
+
         $this->memcached = $this->getMock('Memcached');
         $this->storage = new MemcachedSessionHandler(
             $this->memcached,