diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 0f7c06a802..54fc23a561 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ env:
     - DOCKER_VERSION=17.09.0
     - DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION=1.17.1
   matrix:
-    - TARGET="71"
     - TARGET="72"
     - TARGET="73"
     - TARGET="Lint"
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ceefb7a099..4340994d63 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file based on the
 ### Backward Compatibility Breaks
 
 * The class `\Elastica\QueryBuilder\Version\Version240` has been moved to `\Elastica\QueryBuilder\Version\Version700` [#1693](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/pull/1693)
+* Dropped support for PHP 7.1
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 08f916148d..7905e19e9d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ This project tries to follow Elasticsearch in terms of [End of Life](https://www
 
 | Elastica                                                                                | ElasticSearch | elasticsearch-php | PHP      |
 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ----------------- | -------- |
-| [7.x](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/tree/master)                                   | 7.x           | ^7.0              | ^7.1     |
+| [7.x](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/tree/master)                                   | 7.x           | ^7.0              | ^7.2     |
 | [6.x](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/tree/6.x)                                      | 6.x           | ^6.0              | ^7.0     |
 | [5.x](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/tree/5.x)                                      | 5.x           | ^5.0              | \>=5.6   |
 | [3.2.3](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/tree/3.2.3) (unmaintained)                   | 2.4.0         | no                | \>=5.4   |
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index d02237ee4e..a830113284 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "php": "^7.1",
+        "php": "^7.2",
         "ext-json": "*",
         "psr/log": "~1.0",
         "elasticsearch/elasticsearch": "^7.0"
diff --git a/env/elastica/Docker71 b/env/elastica/Docker71
deleted file mode 100644
index 26f282cd49..0000000000
--- a/env/elastica/Docker71
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# This image is the base image for the Elastica development and includes all parts which rarely change
-# PHP 7 Docker file with Composer installed
-FROM php:7.1
-MAINTAINER Nicolas Ruflin <spam@ruflin.com>
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
-	cloc \
-	git \
-	graphviz \
-	libxslt-dev \
-	nano \
-	zip unzip \
-	wget
-	# XSL and Graphviz for PhpDocumentor
-
-RUN docker-php-ext-install sockets xsl
-
-RUN rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# Xdebug for coverage report
-RUN pecl install xdebug-2.7.2
-
-## PHP Configuration
-
-RUN echo "memory_limit=1024M" >> /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/memory-limit.ini
-RUN echo "date.timezone=UTC" >> /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/timezone.ini
-
-# Install and setup composer
-RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
-ENV COMPOSER_HOME /root/composer
-
-# Add composer bin to the environment
-ENV PATH=/root/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
-
-COPY composer.json /root/composer/
-
-# Install development tools, prefer source removed as automatic fallback now
-RUN composer global install
diff --git a/env/elastica/composer.json b/env/elastica/composer.json
index a3ef208929..4c1e306c13 100644
--- a/env/elastica/composer.json
+++ b/env/elastica/composer.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "php": "^7.1",
+        "php": "^7.2",
         "phpdocumentor/phpdocumentor": "^2.9",
         "mayflower/php-codebrowser": "~1.1",
         "pdepend/pdepend": "^2.5",