diff --git a/config.default.yaml b/config.default.yaml
index 5f2e1c6c..b06c06b7 100755
--- a/config.default.yaml
+++ b/config.default.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ countries: ['AL', 'AT', 'BA', 'BE', 'BG', 'CH', 'CZ', 'DE', 'DK', 'EE', 'ES', 'F
 snapshots:
   start: "2013-01-01"
   end: "2014-01-01"
-  closed: 'left' # end is not inclusive
+  inclusive: 'left' # include start, not end
 
 enable:
   prepare_links_p_nom: false
diff --git a/config.tutorial.yaml b/config.tutorial.yaml
index 4c093a3c..dc5347aa 100755
--- a/config.tutorial.yaml
+++ b/config.tutorial.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ countries: ['BE']
 snapshots:
   start: "2013-03-01"
   end: "2013-04-01"
-  closed: 'left' # end is not inclusive
+  inclusive: 'left' # include start, not end
 
 enable:
   prepare_links_p_nom: false
diff --git a/doc/configtables/snapshots.csv b/doc/configtables/snapshots.csv
index 00297498..d60c78dc 100644
--- a/doc/configtables/snapshots.csv
+++ b/doc/configtables/snapshots.csv
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ,Unit,Values,Description
 start,--,"str or datetime-like; e.g. YYYY-MM-DD","Left bound of date range"
 end,--,"str or datetime-like; e.g. YYYY-MM-DD","Right bound of date range"
-closed,--,"One of {None, ‘left’, ‘right’}","Make the time interval closed to the ``left``, ``right``, or open on both sides ``None``."
+inclusive,--,"One of {'neither', 'both', ‘left’, ‘right’}","Make the time interval closed to the ``left``, ``right``, or both sides ``both`` or neither side ``None``."
diff --git a/doc/release_notes.rst b/doc/release_notes.rst
index 70927880..adcbfb58 100644
--- a/doc/release_notes.rst
+++ b/doc/release_notes.rst
@@ -10,12 +10,21 @@ Release Notes
 Upcoming Release
 ================
 
-* Carriers of generators can now be excluded from aggregation in clustering network and simplify network.
-
 * Fix EQ constraint for the case no hydro inflow is available
 
 * Bugfix in the reserve constraint will increase demand related reserve requirements
 
+**New Features**
+
+* Carriers of generators can now be excluded from aggregation in clustering network and simplify network.
+
+**Breaking Changes**
+
+* The config entry ``snapshots["closed"]`` was renamed to ``snapshots["inclusive"]`` to address the upstream deprecation with ``pandas=1.4``.
+  The previous setting ``None`` is no longer supported and replaced by ``both``, see the `pandas documentation <https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.date_range.html>`_.
+  Minimum ``pandas`` version now required is `>= 1.4`.
+
+
 PyPSA-Eur 0.6.1 (20th September 2022)
 =====================================
 
diff --git a/envs/environment.yaml b/envs/environment.yaml
index 548a10d2..4bdaf48c 100644
--- a/envs/environment.yaml
+++ b/envs/environment.yaml
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ dependencies:
 - yaml
 - pytables
 - lxml
-- powerplantmatching>=0.5.5
+- powerplantmatching>=0.5.4
 - numpy<1.24
-- pandas
+- pandas>=1.4
 - geopandas>=0.11.0
 - xarray
 - netcdf4
diff --git a/test/config.test1.yaml b/test/config.test1.yaml
index 7c9b0896..253446ef 100755
--- a/test/config.test1.yaml
+++ b/test/config.test1.yaml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ countries: ['BE']
 snapshots:
   start: "2013-03-01"
   end: "2013-03-08"
-  closed: 'left' # end is not inclusive
+  inclusive: 'left' # include start, not end
 
 enable:
   prepare_links_p_nom: false