diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
index bdafbdb0..762f06b9 100644
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 [run]
+parallel = True
 branch = False
 omit =
     jupyterhub/tests/*
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 975c5813..d71b4fd7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ share/jupyterhub/static/css/style.min.css.map
 *.egg-info
 MANIFEST
 .coverage
+.coverage.*
 htmlcov
 .idea/
 .pytest_cache
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 0543252e..4c90579a 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 mock
 beautifulsoup4
 codecov
-coverage<5  # pin coverage to < 5 due to coveragepy#716
+coverage
 cryptography
 html5lib  # needed for beautifulsoup
 pytest-cov