diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 4bf538b84b0211ada593913a556f10be0d6ed608..a0693d564438ece97e0e9bebc7262bf189a337d4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # Contributing
 
 If you want to contribute to VirtualFluids, your help is very welcome.
-To contribute use a pull request as follows:
+To contribute use a merge request as follows:
 
-### How to make a clean pull request
+### How to make a clean merge request
 
 - Create a personal fork of VirtualFluids.
-- Clone the fork on your local machine. Your remote repo on gitea is called `origin`.
+- Clone the fork on your local machine. Your remote repo on gitlab is called `origin`.
 - Add the original repository as a remote called `upstream`.
 - If you created your fork a while ago be sure to pull upstream changes into your local repository.
 - Create a new branch to work on! Branch from `develop` or `open_source`.
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ To contribute use a pull request as follows:
 - Write or adapt tests as needed.
 - Add or change the documentation as needed.
 - Push your branch to your fork on gitea, the remote `origin`.
-- From your fork open a pull request in the correct branch. Target the project's `develop` or `open_source` branch
+- From your fork open a merge request in the correct branch. Target the project's `develop` or `open_source` branch
 - …
-- If we requests further changes just push them to your branch. The PR will be updated automatically.
-- Once the pull request is approved and merged you can pull the changes from `upstream` to your local repo and delete
+- If we requests further changes just push them to your branch. The MR will be updated automatically.
+- Once the merge request is approved and merged you can pull the changes from `upstream` to your local repo and delete
 your extra branch(es).
 
 And last but not least: Always write your commit messages in the present tense. Your commit message should describe what the commit, when applied, does to the code – not what you did to the code.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 615e4d758e95b4b556efee9f9487beaf08d90d21..dcd9c19d6ed9a2254cb021904c3cfd982ad237e8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ VirtualFluids has been used on a variety of platforms:
  - Cygwin
 ### Software Requirements
  
- - [CMake](https://cmake.org/) (minimum version 3.13)
- - C++ compiler with C++11 support, for example gcc 6.3 or Visual C++ 14.0
+ - [CMake](https://cmake.org/) (minimum version 3.15)
+ - C++ compiler with C++14 support
  - [Paraview](https://www.paraview.org/) (most recent version)
 
 with usage of the GPU:  
@@ -62,9 +62,7 @@ The doxygen generated documentation can be found [here](https://git.irmb.bau.tu-
 
 
 ## Known Issues
-If CMake does not find CUDA_CUT_INCLUDE_DIR use and set the correct CUDA Pathes in gpu.cmake in the base directory in lines 35, 36.
-
-If you notice any problems on your platform, please report an gitea issue. 
+If you notice any problems on your platform, please report an issue. 
 
 
 ## Authors