diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dbc790d7f..9dccecc72 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ scoped-tls = "0.1.0"
 slab = "0.3"
 iovec = "0.1"
 tokio-io = "0.1"
-futures = "0.1.14"
+futures = "0.1.15"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger = { version = "0.4", default-features = false }
diff --git a/examples/chat.rs b/examples/chat.rs
index 267e0aa63..0e05c8ad4 100644
--- a/examples/chat.rs
+++ b/examples/chat.rs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ fn main() {
         // Model the read portion of this socket by mapping an infinite
         // iterator to each line off the socket. This "loop" is then
         // terminated with an error once we hit EOF on the socket.
-        let iter = stream::iter(iter::repeat(()).map(Ok::<(), Error>));
+        let iter = stream::iter_ok::<_, Error>(iter::repeat(()));
         let socket_reader = iter.fold(reader, move |reader, _| {
             // Read a line off the socket, failing if we're at EOF
             let line = io::read_until(reader, b'\n', Vec::new());
@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ fn main() {
                                     .filter(|&(&k, _)| k != addr)
                                     .map(|(_, v)| v);
                     for tx in iter {
-                        tx.send(format!("{}: {}", addr, msg)).unwrap();
+                        tx.unbounded_send(format!("{}: {}", addr, msg)).unwrap();
                     }
                 } else {
                     let tx = conns.get_mut(&addr).unwrap();
-                    tx.send("You didn't send valid UTF-8.".to_string()).unwrap();
+                    tx.unbounded_send("You didn't send valid UTF-8.".to_string()).unwrap();
                 }
                 reader
             })
diff --git a/examples/sink.rs b/examples/sink.rs
index 2998b269f..bd56001f9 100644
--- a/examples/sink.rs
+++ b/examples/sink.rs
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ fn main() {
 
 fn write(socket: TcpStream) -> IoFuture<()> {
     static BUF: &'static [u8] = &[0; 64 * 1024];
-    let iter = iter::repeat(()).map(|()| Ok(()));
-    stream::iter(iter).fold(socket, |socket, ()| {
+    let iter = iter::repeat(());
+    Box::new(stream::iter_ok(iter).fold(socket, |socket, ()| {
         tokio_io::io::write_all(socket, BUF).map(|(socket, _)| socket)
-    }).map(|_| ()).boxed()
+    }).map(|_| ()))
 }
diff --git a/src/io/mod.rs b/src/io/mod.rs
index f0c50e31e..5fa11206a 100644
--- a/src/io/mod.rs
+++ b/src/io/mod.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 //! [low level details]: https://tokio.rs/docs/going-deeper-tokio/core-low-level/
 
 #![deprecated(note = "moved to the `tokio-io` crate")]
+#![allow(deprecated)]
 
 use std::io;
 
diff --git a/src/net/tcp.rs b/src/net/tcp.rs
index ee65f06b6..3e5214378 100644
--- a/src/net/tcp.rs
+++ b/src/net/tcp.rs
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ impl TcpStream {
             Ok(tcp) => TcpStream::new(tcp, handle),
             Err(e) => TcpStreamNewState::Error(e),
         };
-        state.boxed()
+        Box::new(state)
     }
 
     /// Test whether this socket is ready to be read or not.
diff --git a/src/reactor/mod.rs b/src/reactor/mod.rs
index 1caa95763..18bd2b3c7 100644
--- a/src/reactor/mod.rs
+++ b/src/reactor/mod.rs
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ impl Remote {
                     lp.notify(msg);
                 }
                 None => {
-                    match mpsc::UnboundedSender::send(&self.tx, msg) {
+                    match self.tx.unbounded_send(msg) {
                         Ok(()) => {}
 
                         // TODO: this error should punt upwards and we should