diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ea2ff4e8b..542c9c6b0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
   [#1688](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb/pull/1688)
 - Remove references to discontinued `requires.io` service in documentation. @rly
   [#1690](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb/pull/1690)
+- Update `requirements-doc.txt` to resolve Python 3.7 incompatibility. @rly
+  [#1694](https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb/pull/1694)
 
 ## PyNWB 2.3.2 (April 10, 2023)
 
diff --git a/requirements-doc.txt b/requirements-doc.txt
index ad5b77629..f2a82da73 100644
--- a/requirements-doc.txt
+++ b/requirements-doc.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,5 @@ sphinx-copybutton
 dataframe_image   # used to render large dataframe as image in the sphinx gallery to improve html display
 lxml  # used by dataframe_image when using the matplotlib backend
 hdf5plugin
+importlib-metadata<4.3; python_version < "3.8"  # TODO: remove when minimum python version is 3.8
+