diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yaml b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
index 72b597e..c50ff91 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11]
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
       fail-fast: false
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ jobs:
           pip install nose
 
       - name: Run tests
-        run: nosetests -w tests
\ No newline at end of file
+        run: nosetests -w tests
diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index f0abb06..7470f24 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Changelog
 ---------
-* `1.0.1`
-    * Add support for Python 3.10 and Python 3.11
+* `2.0.0`
+    * Drop support for Python <= 3.7
 * `1.0.0`
     * By default PDFKit now passes "quiet" option to wkhtmltopdf. Now if you need to get output you should pass "verbose=True" to API calls
     * Fix different issues with searching for wkhtmltopdf binary
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 602d2e2..f0c9bd3 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Python-PDFKit: HTML to PDF wrapper
 .. image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/pdfkit.svg
         :target: http://badge.fury.io/py/pdfkit
 
-Python 2 and 3 wrapper for wkhtmltopdf utility to convert HTML to PDF using Webkit.
+Python 3 wrapper for wkhtmltopdf utility to convert HTML to PDF using Webkit.
 
 This is adapted version of `ruby PDFKit <https://github.com/pdfkit/pdfkit>`_ library, so big thanks to them!
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Installation
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-	$ pip install pdfkit  (or pip3 for python3)
+	$ pip install pdfkit
 
 2. Install wkhtmltopdf:
 
diff --git a/ci/before-script.sh b/ci/before-script.sh
index 81fda49..96d2536 100644
--- a/ci/before-script.sh
+++ b/ci/before-script.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 WKHTML2PDF_VERSION='0.12.6-1'
 
-sudo apt-get install -y build-essential xorg libssl-dev libxrender-dev wget gdebi
+sudo apt-get install -y build-essential xorg libssl-dev libxrender-dev wget gdebi-core
 wget "https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/${WKHTML2PDF_VERSION}/wkhtmltox_${WKHTML2PDF_VERSION}.bionic_amd64.deb"
 sudo gdebi --n wkhtmltox_${WKHTML2PDF_VERSION}.bionic_amd64.deb
diff --git a/pdfkit/__init__.py b/pdfkit/__init__.py
index 31c052e..027c95c 100644
--- a/pdfkit/__init__.py
+++ b/pdfkit/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 """
 
 __author__ = 'Golovanov Stanislav'
-__version__ = '1.0.1'
+__version__ = '2.0.0'
 __license__ = 'MIT'
 
 from .pdfkit import PDFKit
diff --git a/pdfkit/pdfkit.py b/pdfkit/pdfkit.py
index cde58d1..88b3c92 100644
--- a/pdfkit/pdfkit.py
+++ b/pdfkit/pdfkit.py
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@
 import io
 import codecs
 
-# Python 2.x and 3.x support for checking string types
-basestring = str.__mro__[-2]
-unicode = type(u'')
-
 
 class PDFKit(object):
     """
@@ -113,7 +109,7 @@ def _command(self, path=None):
         if self.source.isString() or self.source.isFileObj():
             yield '-'
         else:
-            if isinstance(self.source.source, basestring):
+            if isinstance(self.source.source, str):
                 yield self.source.to_s()
             else:
                 for s in self.source.source:
@@ -158,7 +154,7 @@ def to_pdf(self, path=None):
         args = self.command(path)
 
         if sys.platform == 'win32':
-            #hide cmd window
+            # hide cmd window
             startupinfo = subprocess.STARTUPINFO()
             startupinfo.dwFlags |= subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
             startupinfo.wShowWindow = subprocess.SW_HIDE
@@ -241,8 +237,8 @@ def _normalize_options(self, options):
                 for optval in value:
                     yield (normalized_key, optval)
             else:
-                normalized_value = '' if isinstance(value,bool) else value
-                yield (normalized_key, unicode(normalized_value) if value else value)
+                normalized_value = '' if isinstance(value, bool) else value
+                yield (normalized_key, str(normalized_value) if value else value)
 
     def _normalize_arg(self, arg):
         return arg.lower()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 99262c4..4006a34 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -39,13 +39,6 @@ def long_description():
     author_email='stgolovanov@gmail.com',
     classifiers=[
         'Programming Language :: Python',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index a193343..2ccafd3 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py27,py33,py34,py35,py36,py37,py38,py39,py310,py311
+envlist = py38,py39,py310,py311
 
 [testenv]
 deps = pytest