diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 668861f8f..aa72343c3 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ add_subdirectory(docs)
 lcm_option(
   LCM_ENABLE_JAVA
   "Build Java bindings and utilities"
-  JAVA_FOUND Java 1.6)
+  JAVA_FOUND Java 1.8)
 if(LCM_ENABLE_JAVA)
   add_subdirectory(lcm-java)
   add_custom_target(lcm-spy DEPENDS lcm-spy-alias)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS.md
similarity index 97%
rename from NEWS
rename to NEWS.md
index 6135b1ac6..a1c2deb86 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+April 19, 2023
+==============
+
+Release 1.5.0
+
+This is primarily a bugfix and maintenance release.
+
+- General
+    - Several bug fixes
+    - Fixed general and deprecation warnings on recent versions of Python and Java
+- Build system
+    - Updated CMake to fix warnings
+- Docs
+    - Now built through Sphinx with a ReadTheDocs theme
+    - Automatically updated and deployed via CI/CD
+    - Location has moved from https://lcm-proj.github.io/ to https://lcm-proj.github.io/lcm/
+- Windows support
+    - Moved from supporting Visual Studio to supporting a MSYS2 MGW64 environment
+- Java 
+    - Version 1.8 or later is now required
+
 August 30, 2018
 ==============
 
diff --git a/docs/content/build-instructions.md b/docs/content/build-instructions.md
index 1dcbee227..f8c0ff799 100644
--- a/docs/content/build-instructions.md
+++ b/docs/content/build-instructions.md
@@ -78,17 +78,8 @@ Download and build LCM.
 
 ## Windows
 
-Requirements:
- - GLib for Windows ([http://www.gtk.org](http://www.gtk.org)).  You'll need the following packages
-  - GLib (Run-time, dev)
-  - gettext-runtime (Run-time)
-
-Building:
-  1. Follow the instructions in WinSpecific/README.txt to setup GLib.
-  2. Use the CMake GUI to configure LCM.
-  3. Open the VS Solution created by CMake and build it.
-
-LCM is officially supported on Visual Studio 2015.
+LCM is officially supported on MSYS2. There is some residual support for Visual Studio that is
+unmaintained. Please see WinSpecific/README.md for more information on building on Windows.
 
 ## Other / General
 
diff --git a/lcm-python/CHANGELOG b/lcm-python/CHANGELOG
deleted file mode 100644
index aaab2e526..000000000
--- a/lcm-python/CHANGELOG
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version 0.1 (Dec 13, 2007)
---------------------------
-initial release
diff --git a/lcm-python/README b/lcm-python/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 852948069..000000000
--- a/lcm-python/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-Python-LCM
-
-  Python extension module allowing access to the Lightweight Communications and
-  Marshaller (LCM) library from Python.
-  
-  https://github.com/lcm-proj/lcm
-
-BUILD REQUIREMENTS:
-
-  - POSIX system (GNU/Linux, OS X, etc.)
-  - GLib 2.x
-
-  Windows notes:
-  - only tested with MS Visual Studio 2008 (MSVC 9.0)
-  - you should be able to build the LCM C library from Visual Studio.
-  - you must set the GLIB_PATH environment variable.
-  - The following files need to be discoverable by the dynamic linker:
-    intl.dll, libglib-2.0-0.dll
-
-INSTALLATION:
-  from a command shell:
-
-  # python setup.py install
-
-CONTACT:
-
-  Albert Huang <ashuang@alum.mit.edu>
-  David Moore <dcm@acm.org>
-  Edwin Olson <eolson@alum.mit.edu>