diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 5f0db5e..7129575 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ future:      true
 limit_posts: 0
 highlighter: pygments
 
-relative_permalinks: true
+# dropped in 3.0
+#relative_permalinks: true
 
 permalink:     pretty
 paginate_path: 'blog/:num'