diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cd87a6f..eec7205 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ travis-ci = { repository = "alexcrichton/cc-rs" }
 appveyor = { repository = "alexcrichton/cc-rs" }
 
 [dependencies]
-rayon = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
+rayon = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 
 [features]
 parallel = ["rayon"]
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index d5c125c..8f2b6d2 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -897,13 +897,13 @@ impl Build {
     fn compile_objects(&self, objs: &[Object]) -> Result<(), Error> {
         use self::rayon::prelude::*;
 
-        let mut cfg = rayon::Configuration::new();
+        let mut builder = rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder::new();
         if let Ok(amt) = env::var("NUM_JOBS") {
             if let Ok(amt) = amt.parse() {
-                cfg = cfg.num_threads(amt);
+                builder = builder.num_threads(amt);
             }
         }
-        drop(rayon::initialize(cfg));
+        drop(builder.build_global());
 
         let results: Mutex<Vec<Result<(), Error>>> = Mutex::new(Vec::new());