diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 207ddc9..75a0c96 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 julia 0.7
 ImageCore 0.2
-AxisArrays
+AxisArrays 0.3
 MappedArrays
 SimpleTraits
 Reexport
 Colors
 FixedPointNumbers 0.3.0
-Compat 0.17
diff --git a/src/ImageAxes.jl b/src/ImageAxes.jl
index e47561a..8e13bc2 100644
--- a/src/ImageAxes.jl
+++ b/src/ImageAxes.jl
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ module ImageAxes
 
 using Base: @pure, tail
 using Reexport, Colors, SimpleTraits, MappedArrays
-using Compat
 
 # maybe return to "@reexport AxisArrays" if AxisArrays is fixed