diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/7.0.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/7.0.0.rst
index c36a06719..1daea5d8e 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes/7.0.0.rst
+++ b/docs/releasenotes/7.0.0.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 Backwards Incompatible Changes
 ==============================
 
+Python 2.7
+^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Pillow has dropped support for Python 2.7, which reached end-of-life on 2020-01-01.
+
 PILLOW_VERSION constant
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^