diff --git a/.waf-tools/default-compiler-flags.py b/.waf-tools/default-compiler-flags.py
index 4debb4e..3a7bf66 100644
--- a/.waf-tools/default-compiler-flags.py
+++ b/.waf-tools/default-compiler-flags.py
@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@
         flags = super(GccBasicFlags, self).getDebugFlags(conf)
         flags['CXXFLAGS'] += ['-Og',
                               '-g3',
-                              '-pedantic',
                               '-Wall',
                               '-Wextra',
+                              '-Wpedantic',
                               '-Werror',
                               '-Wcatch-value=2',
                               '-Wextra-semi',
@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@
         flags = super(GccBasicFlags, self).getOptimizedFlags(conf)
         flags['CXXFLAGS'] += ['-O2',
                               '-g',
-                              '-pedantic',
                               '-Wall',
                               '-Wextra',
+                              '-Wpedantic',
                               '-Wcatch-value=2',
                               '-Wextra-semi',
                               '-Wnon-virtual-dtor',
diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md
index ea22fb5..a0f6c55 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.md
+++ b/AUTHORS.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # ndn-traffic-generator Authors
 
-The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to ndn-traffic-generator in alphabetic order.
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to ndn-traffic-generator in alphabetical order.
 The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official ndn-traffic-generator repository](https://github.com/named-data/ndn-traffic-generator).
-If you would like to become a contributor to the official repository, please follow the recommendations in https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.
+If you would like to become a contributor to the official repository, please follow the recommendations in <https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md>.
 
 * Jerald Paul Abraham <https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~jeraldabraham>
 * Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 3b1a38d..4075125 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     conf.find_program(['pkgconf', 'pkg-config'], var='PKGCONFIG')
 
     pkg_config_path = os.environ.get('PKG_CONFIG_PATH', f'{conf.env.LIBDIR}/pkgconfig')
-    conf.check_cfg(package='libndn-cxx', args=['libndn-cxx >= 0.8.0', '--cflags', '--libs'],
+    conf.check_cfg(package='libndn-cxx', args=['libndn-cxx >= 0.8.1', '--cflags', '--libs'],
                    uselib_store='NDN_CXX', pkg_config_path=pkg_config_path)
 
     conf.check_compiler_flags()