diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 914d1d05f..ed56c5cd1 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 # serve to show the default.
 
 import sys
+from datetime import datetime
 from os import path
 
 # If your extensions are in another directory, add it here. If the directory
@@ -49,8 +50,8 @@ source_suffix = '.rst'
 master_doc = 'index'
 
 # General information about the project.
-project = u'Scrapy'
-copyright = u'2008–2018, Scrapy developers'
+project = 'Scrapy'
+copyright = '2008–{}, Scrapy developers'.format(datetime.now().year)
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
@@ -194,8 +195,8 @@ htmlhelp_basename = 'Scrapydoc'
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title, author, document class [howto/manual]).
 latex_documents = [
-  ('index', 'Scrapy.tex', u'Scrapy Documentation',
-   u'Scrapy developers', 'manual'),
+  ('index', 'Scrapy.tex', 'Scrapy Documentation',
+   'Scrapy developers', 'manual'),
 ]
 
 # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
index 234c4bcee..eaaf86c29 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ You can also specify a comma-separated list of environmets, and use :ref:`tox’
 parallel mode <tox:parallel_mode>` to run the tests on multiple environments in
 parallel::
 
-    tox -e py27,py36 -p auto
+    tox -e py36,py38 -p auto
 
 To pass command-line options to :doc:`pytest <pytest:index>`, add them after
 ``--`` in your call to :doc:`tox <tox:index>`. Using ``--`` overrides the