diff --git a/ANNOUNCE.rst b/ANNOUNCE.rst
index 01ee8ec8..4de78bf5 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE.rst
+++ b/ANNOUNCE.rst
@@ -1,29 +1,16 @@
 ======================
-Announcing bcolz 1.1.2
+Announcing bcolz 1.2.0
 ======================
 
 What's new
 ==========
 
-This is a maintenance release that brings quite a lot of improvements.
-Here are the highlights:
+This is a minor release that essentially updates internal C-Blosc
+sources to 1.14.2.  This is important for forward compatibility reasons.
+Because of this an update is highly recommended.
+For more info, see:   http://blosc.org/posts/new-forward-compat-policy/
 
-- Zstd is a supported codec now.  Fixes #331.
-
-- C-Blosc updated to 1.11.2.
-
-- Added a new `defaults_ctx` context so that users can select defaults
-  easily without changing global behaviour. For example::
-
-   with bcolz.defaults_ctx(vm="python", cparams=bcolz.cparams(clevel=0)):
-      cout = bcolz.eval("(x + 1) < 0")
-
-- Fixed a crash occurring in `ctable.todataframe()` when both `columns`
-  and `orient='columns'` were specified.  PR #311.  Thanks to Peter
-  Quackenbush.
-
-- Use `pkg_resources.parse_version()` to test for version of packages.
-  Fixes #322 (PY27 bcolz with dask unicode error).
+Also, support for Python 2.6 and 3.4 has been dropped.
 
 For a more detailed change log, see:
 
diff --git a/LICENSES/BCOLZ.txt b/LICENSES/BCOLZ.txt
index 11327189..7dcb0cab 100644
--- a/LICENSES/BCOLZ.txt
+++ b/LICENSES/BCOLZ.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Copyright Notice and Statement for bcolz Software Library and Utilities:
 Copyright (c) 2010-2011 by Francesc Alted
 Copyright (c) 2012 by Continuum Analytics
 Copyright (c) 2013 by Francesc Alted
-Copyright (c) 2014-2017 by Francesc Alted and the bcolz contributors
+Copyright (c) 2014-2018 by Francesc Alted and the bcolz contributors
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e76733de..9c501d89 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -94,11 +94,10 @@ wider vector units.
 Requisites
 ----------
 
-- Python >= 2.6
+- Python >= 2.7 and >= 3.5
 - NumPy >= 1.8
 - Cython >= 0.22 (just for compiling the beast)
 - C-Blosc >= 1.8.0 (optional, as the internal Blosc will be used by default)
-- unittest2 (optional, only in the case you are running Python 2.6)
 
 Optional:
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 056e0de5..548b6045 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'bcolz'
-copyright = u'2010-2017 Francesc Alted and the bcolz contributors'
+copyright = u'2010-2018 Francesc Alted and the bcolz contributors'
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the