diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 34a3019cf9dd96f55e7c967d73538d2e059c42cb..15802b8b726efbd32ff94275ab7518c3e1f08cf5 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ variables: &variables
   CXXFLAGS: "-g -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wall -Wdate-time -Wextra -Wformat=2"
   DEBIAN_FRONTEND: "noninteractive"
   DL_LD: g++-8  ## FIXME: drop when Octave version 6 becomes latest
-  DOCTEST_GIT_REPOSITORY: "https://github.com/catch22/octave-doctest.git"
+  DOCTEST_GIT_REPOSITORY: "https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave-doctest.git"
   DOCTEST_GIT_TAG: "v0.8.0"
   DOCTEST_ROOT: "/tmp/doctest"
   LIBSSL_DEV: "libssl-dev"
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1f9faf5bd344ad73525cfec12d940c6356884293..ddab453df26baf451e44e212c2c15aa12379ed26 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 - Use system Python 3 interpreter by default.
+- Dropped support for Python 2 and Python < 3.7.
 
 ### Fixed
 - Ensure that `pyobject` constructor does not recurse or overwrite itself.
@@ -22,4 +23,4 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 This is the first release of the Octave Pythonic package.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://gitlab.com/mtmiller/octave-pythonic/compare/v0.0.1...master
+[Unreleased]: https://gitlab.com/gnu-octave/octave-pythonic/-/compare/v0.0.1...main