diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.gitlab-ci.yml b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 49fdfb6779ba8c31379d05f9c45bbc09999db33c..df58acbfebd08f9f7fc146e46c1255bed5f2ca53 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ run_unit_tests:
     - tox -e py3${PY_VERSION}
   parallel:
     matrix: # use the matrix for testing
-      - PY_VERSION: [7, 8, 9, 10]
+      - PY_VERSION: [ 8, 9, 10]
 
 # Run code coverage on the base image thus also performing unit tests
 run_unit_tests_coverage:
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
index feb27aa0b061555c7a885a0645a943868597beec..063c6b8c424a023260e012745fb447470329ade1 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "setuptools>=62.6",
-    "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2",
+    "setuptools_scm[toml]>=8.0",
     "wheel"
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
-write_to = "{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/_version.py"
+version_file = "{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/_version.py"
 
 [tool.pylint]
 ignore = "_version.py"