diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b8b77c4cb..3b44e1346 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ This can also be enabled programmatically with `warnings.simplefilter('default',
 * fixed bug where cells with `rowspan`, `colspan` > 1 and null text were not displayed properly - [issue #1293](https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/issues/1293)
 ### Changed
 * improved logic for handling text substitution of the total number of pages, ensuring compatibility with text shaping - [issue #1090](https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/issues/1090)
+### Removed
+* reminder : since release `2.8.1`, `fpdf2` does not support Python 3.7, that reached [end-of-life](https://devguide.python.org/versions/#supported-versions) in 2023
 
 ## [2.8.1] - 2024-10-04
 ### Added
@@ -56,6 +58,7 @@ This can also be enabled programmatically with `warnings.simplefilter('default',
 * new translation of the tutorial in [Indonesian](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/Tutorial-id.html) - thanks to @odhyp
 * `RecursionError` in some cases when calling [`FPDF.write_html()`](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fpdf.html#fpdf.fpdf.FPDF.write_html) inside [`FPDF.footer()`](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fpdf.html#fpdf.fpdf.FPDF.footer) - [issue #1222](https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/issues/1222)
 ### Removed
+* support for Python 3.7, that reached [end-of-life](https://devguide.python.org/versions/#supported-versions) in 2023
 * an obscure and undocumented [feature](https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/issues/1198) of [`FPDF.write_html()`](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fpdf.html#fpdf.fpdf.FPDF.write_html), which used to magically pass instance attributes as arguments.
 ### Deprecated
 * `fpdf.TitleStyle` has been renamed into [`fpdf.TextStyle`](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fonts.html#fpdf.fonts.TextStyle)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0e72bd0bf..2fed57095 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ pip install git+https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2.git@master
 
 ## Features
 
- * Python 3.7+ support
+ * Python 3.8+ support
  * [Unicode](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/Unicode.html) (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding
  * Internal / external [links](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/Links.html)
  * Embedding images, including transparency and alpha channel
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index b3e92f37f..81520f5d8 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Go try it **now** online in a Jupyter notebook: [![Open In Colab](https://colab.
 ## Main features ##
 
 * Easy to use, with a user-friendly [API](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/), and easy to extend
-* Python 3.7+ support
+* Python 3.8+ support
 * [Unicode](Unicode.md) (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding (Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Baltic, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi and almost any other language in the world)
 * Internal / external [links](Links.md)
 * Embedding images, including transparency and alpha channel, using [Pillow (Python Imaging Library)](https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index faff6bf8c..bfd71e177 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ classifiers =
   Intended Audience :: Developers
   License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3)
   Programming Language :: Python
-  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 c7799e83e..80992fe01 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 # test suite on all supported python versions. To use it, "pip install tox"
 # and then run "tox" from this directory.
 # 
-# To run different environments, try `tox -e py27` or `tox -e docs`
+# To run different environments, try `tox -e py312` or `tox -e docs`
 # 
 
 [tox]
-envlist = py37, py38, py39, py310, py311, py312
+envlist = py38, py39, py310, py311, py312
 
 [gh-actions]
 python =