diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 30a6766..8f19c11 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ Package maintainers and users who have to manually update their installation
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+Version 0.8.0
+=============
+
+- Keyring support has been removed, which means that ``password.fetch =
+  ["keyring", "example.com", "myuser"]`` doesn't work anymore.
+
+  For existing setups: Use ``password.fetch = ["command", "keyring", "get",
+  "example.com", "myuser"]`` instead, which is more generic. See the
+  documentation for details.
+
 Version 0.7.5
 =============
 
diff --git a/docs/keyring.rst b/docs/keyring.rst
index 28f1d80..b8abef8 100644
--- a/docs/keyring.rst
+++ b/docs/keyring.rst
@@ -38,38 +38,23 @@ You can fetch the username as well::
 
 Or really any kind of parameter in a storage section.
 
-System Keyring
-==============
+Accessing the system keyring
+----------------------------
 
-While the command approach is quite flexible, it is often cumbersome to write a
-script fetching the system keyring.
+As shown above, you can use the ``command`` strategy to fetch your credentials
+from arbitrary sources. A very common usecase is to fetch your password from
+the system keyring.
 
-Vdirsyncer can do this for you if you have the keyring_ package installed. How
-you would obtain this package depends on how you installed vdirsyncer. If you
-used pip, you can use the following command to also install keyring::
+The keyring_ Python package contains a command-line utility for fetching
+passwords from the OS's password store. Installation::
 
-    pip install vdirsyncer[keyring]
+    pip install keyring
 
-Then you can use::
-
-    [storage foo]
-    type = caldav
-    username = myusername
-    password.fetch = ["keyring", "myservicename", "myusername"]
-
-
-The password can than be set like this (in a python interpreter)::
-
-   >>> import keyring
-   >>> keyring.set_password("myservicename", "myusername", "password")
-  
-To test if you got it right you can run::
-  
-   >>> keyring.get_password("myservicename", "myusername")
-   "password"
-  
-.. _keyring: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring
+Basic usage::
 
+    password.fetch = ["command", "keyring", "get", "example.com", "foouser"]
+    
+.. _keyring: https://github.com/jaraco/keyring/
 
 Password Prompt
 ===============
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 64ed382..f436cc4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ setup(
         'atomicwrites'
     ],
     extras_require={
-        'keyring': ['keyring'],
         'remotestorage': ['requests-oauthlib']
     }
 )
diff --git a/tests/cli/test_fetchparams.py b/tests/cli/test_fetchparams.py
index 0f71dff..129aafb 100644
--- a/tests/cli/test_fetchparams.py
+++ b/tests/cli/test_fetchparams.py
@@ -2,18 +2,6 @@
 
 from textwrap import dedent
 
-import pytest
-
-
-class EmptyKeyring(object):
-    def get_password(self, *a, **kw):
-        return None
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
-def empty_password_storages(monkeypatch):
-    monkeypatch.setattr('vdirsyncer.cli.fetchparams.keyring', EmptyKeyring())
-
 
 def test_get_password_from_command(tmpdir, runner):
     runner.write_with_general(dedent('''
diff --git a/vdirsyncer/cli/fetchparams.py b/vdirsyncer/cli/fetchparams.py
index 59009c9..b177b4b 100644
--- a/vdirsyncer/cli/fetchparams.py
+++ b/vdirsyncer/cli/fetchparams.py
@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ SUFFIX = '.fetch'
 
 logger = log.get(__name__)
 
-try:
-    import keyring
-except ImportError:
-    keyring = None
-
 
 def expand_fetch_params(config):
     config = dict(config)
@@ -72,12 +67,6 @@ def _fetch_value(opts, key):
         return rv
 
 
-def _strategy_keyring(username, host):
-    if not keyring:
-        raise RuntimeError('Keyring package not available.')
-    return keyring.get_password(username, host)
-
-
 def _strategy_command(*command):
     import subprocess
     command = (expand_path(command[0]),) + command[1:]
@@ -94,7 +83,6 @@ def _strategy_prompt(text):
 
 
 STRATEGIES = {
-    'keyring': _strategy_keyring,
     'command': _strategy_command,
     'prompt': _strategy_prompt,
 }