diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 4e9d13d..f4c9cef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         version:
-          - '1.6' # lowest supported version; though possibly with errors
           - '1.6' # LTS support
           - '1'   # last released version
         os:
@@ -55,34 +54,3 @@ jobs:
           token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }} # required
           fail_ci_if_error: true
           file: lcov.info
-  docs:
-    name: Documentation
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      # needed to allow julia-actions/cache to proactively delete old caches that it has created
-      actions: write 
-      contents: write
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
-        with:
-          version: '1'
-      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
-      - name: Configure doc environment
-        shell: julia --project=docs --color=yes {0}
-        run: |
-          using Pkg
-          Pkg.develop(PackageSpec(path=pwd()))
-          Pkg.instantiate()
-      - name: Run doctests
-        shell: julia --project=docs --color=yes {0}
-        run: |
-          using Documenter: DocMeta, doctest
-          using Roots
-          DocMeta.setdocmeta!(Roots, :DocTestSetup, :(using Roots); recursive=true)
-          doctest(Roots)
-      - uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@v1
-      - name: Deploy
-        run: julia --project=docs docs/make.jl
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}