diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 65f4936a..7d99ed32 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 Current release
 ---------------
 
+What's new in psycopg 2.8
+-------------------------
+
+Other changes:
+
+- Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.2, 3.3.
+
+
 What's new in psycopg 2.7.4
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/psycopg/python.h b/psycopg/python.h
index b16c4b9d..fc8c2fed 100644
--- a/psycopg/python.h
+++ b/psycopg/python.h
@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@
 #include <stringobject.h>
 #endif
 
-#if PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x02070000
-#  error "psycopg requires Python >= 2.7"
+#if ((PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x02070000) \
+     || ((PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x03000000) \
+      && (PY_VERSION_HEX <  0x03040000)) )
+#  error "psycopg requires Python 2.7 or 3.4+"
 #endif
 
 /* hash() return size changed around version 3.2a4 on 64bit platforms.  Before