diff --git a/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties b/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
index c76af40b2f9..a3c407ffc27 100644
--- a/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
+++ b/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,20 +1,4 @@
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-distributionSha256Sum=8351955a9acf2f83c136c4eee0f6db894ab6265fdbe0a94b32a380307dbaa3e1
+wrapperVersion=3.3.4
 distributionType=only-script
-distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.8/apache-maven-3.9.8-bin.zip
-wrapperVersion=3.3.2
+distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.16/apache-maven-3.9.16-bin.zip
+distributionSha256Sum=5af3b743dd8b876b5c45da33b676251e5f1687712644abb4ee519ca56e1d89ce
diff --git a/log4j-compress/pom.xml b/log4j-compress/pom.xml
index 700e105000c..b7326d0dfd3 100644
--- a/log4j-compress/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-compress/pom.xml
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
   <description>Add additional compression formats to Log4j Core.</description>
 
   <properties>
-    <commons-compress.version>1.27.1</commons-compress.version>
-    <jimfs.version>1.3.1</jimfs.version>
-    <xz.version>1.10</xz.version>
+    <commons-compress.version>1.28.0</commons-compress.version>
+    <jimfs.version>1.3.2</jimfs.version>
+    <xz.version>1.12</xz.version>
     <zstd.version>1.5.7-15</zstd.version>
   </properties>
 
diff --git a/log4j-core-test/pom.xml b/log4j-core-test/pom.xml
index 545a2d98a7c..af265f567a1 100644
--- a/log4j-core-test/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-core-test/pom.xml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     </bnd-extra-module-options>
 
     <!-- Dependency versions -->
-    <slf4j2.version>2.0.17</slf4j2.version>
+    <slf4j2.version>2.0.18</slf4j2.version>
     <wiremock.version>3.13.1</wiremock.version>
   </properties>
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
         <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-        <version>2.13.1</version>
+        <version>2.14.0</version>
       </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/log4j-kit/pom.xml b/log4j-kit/pom.xml
index 9384222456a..0745a74aa53 100644
--- a/log4j-kit/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-kit/pom.xml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
       <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
-      <version>3.30.2-GA</version>
+      <version>3.33.0-GA</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
diff --git a/log4j-layout-template-json-test/pom.xml b/log4j-layout-template-json-test/pom.xml
index 1057beba429..f1a512adb2d 100644
--- a/log4j-layout-template-json-test/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-layout-template-json-test/pom.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
          2. The Docker image version of the ELK-stack
 
          As of 2024-09-16, these all (Maven artifacts and Elastic products) get released with the same version. -->
-    <elastic.version>9.2.0</elastic.version>
+    <elastic.version>9.5.3</elastic.version>
 
   </properties>
 
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>co.elastic.logging</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j2-ecs-layout</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.0</version>
+      <version>1.8.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
diff --git a/log4j-mongodb/pom.xml b/log4j-mongodb/pom.xml
index ae414d6cdd9..e749510831a 100644
--- a/log4j-mongodb/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-mongodb/pom.xml
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
     <Fragment-Host>org.apache.logging.log4j.core</Fragment-Host>
 
     <!-- Dependency properties -->
-    <mongodb.version>5.5.1</mongodb.version>
-    <slf4j2.version>2.0.17</slf4j2.version>
+    <mongodb.version>5.11.0</mongodb.version>
+    <slf4j2.version>2.0.18</slf4j2.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/log4j-osgi-test/pom.xml b/log4j-osgi-test/pom.xml
index d8272f710e0..8e9092e8a4a 100644
--- a/log4j-osgi-test/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-osgi-test/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
     <!-- Dependency versions -->
     <spifly.version>1.3.7</spifly.version>
-    <logback.version>1.5.18</logback.version>
+    <logback.version>1.6.3</logback.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 58c88626390..cdd4ee36a06 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
          Plugin version properties (in alphabetical order)
          ================================================= -->
     <asciidoctor-maven-plugin.version>2.2.4</asciidoctor-maven-plugin.version>
-    <docker-maven-plugin.version>0.46.0</docker-maven-plugin.version>
+    <docker-maven-plugin.version>0.49.0</docker-maven-plugin.version>
     <exam-maven-plugin.version>4.14.0</exam-maven-plugin.version>
     <!-- `surefire.version` property used in `apache.org:apache`: -->
     <surefire.version>3.5.2</surefire.version>
@@ -93,43 +93,43 @@
     <!-- =====================================================
          Direct dependency version properties (in alphabetical order)
          ===================================================== -->
-    <assertj.version>3.27.3</assertj.version>
+    <assertj.version>3.27.7</assertj.version>
     <awaitility.version>4.3.0</awaitility.version>
     <bsh.version>2.0b6</bsh.version>
-    <bnd.annotation.version>7.1.0</bnd.annotation.version>
-    <commons-codec.version>1.18.0</commons-codec.version>
-    <commons-csv.version>1.14.0</commons-csv.version>
-    <commons-dbcp2.version>2.13.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
-    <commons-io.version>2.20.0</commons-io.version>
-    <commons-lang3.version>3.17.0</commons-lang3.version>
+    <bnd.annotation.version>7.4.0</bnd.annotation.version>
+    <commons-codec.version>1.22.1</commons-codec.version>
+    <commons-csv.version>1.14.1</commons-csv.version>
+    <commons-dbcp2.version>2.14.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
+    <commons-io.version>2.22.0</commons-io.version>
+    <commons-lang3.version>3.20.0</commons-lang3.version>
     <disruptor.version>4.0.0</disruptor.version>
     <embedded-ldap.version>0.9.0</embedded-ldap.version>
     <felix.version>7.0.5</felix.version>
     <groovy.version>5.1.1</groovy.version>
-    <h2.version>2.3.232</h2.version>
+    <h2.version>2.4.240</h2.version>
     <hamcrest.version>3.0</hamcrest.version>
     <HdrHistogram.version>2.2.2</HdrHistogram.version>
     <hsqldb.version>2.7.4</hsqldb.version>
     <!-- wiremock and elasticsearch-java libraries used for testing require Jackson 2 -->
     <!-- The log4j project is using Jackson 3. -->
-    <jackson2.test.version>2.20.0</jackson2.test.version>
-    <jackson-bom.version>3.0.0</jackson-bom.version>
+    <jackson2.test.version>2.22.2</jackson2.test.version>
+    <jackson-bom.version>3.2.2</jackson-bom.version>
     <javax-jms.version>2.0.1</javax-jms.version>
-    <java-allocation-instrumenter.version>3.3.4</java-allocation-instrumenter.version>
-    <jctools.version>4.0.5</jctools.version>
-    <jmdns.version>3.6.1</jmdns.version>
+    <java-allocation-instrumenter.version>3.3.5</java-allocation-instrumenter.version>
+    <jctools.version>4.0.7</jctools.version>
+    <jmdns.version>3.6.3</jmdns.version>
     <jmh.version>1.37</jmh.version>
     <json-unit.version>6.2.0</json-unit.version>
-    <jspecify.version>1.0.0</jspecify.version>
+    <jspecify.version>1.0.1</jspecify.version>
     <junit.version>4.13.2</junit.version>
     <junit-jupiter.version>5.13.4</junit-jupiter.version>
     <junit-pioneer.version>2.3.0</junit-pioneer.version>
     <log4j2-custom-layout.version>1.1.0</log4j2-custom-layout.version>
     <log4j2-logstash-layout.version>0.18</log4j2-logstash-layout.version>
-    <mockito.version>5.18.0</mockito.version>
-    <nashorn.version>15.6</nashorn.version>
+    <mockito.version>5.23.0</mockito.version>
+    <nashorn.version>15.7</nashorn.version>
     <opentest4j.version>1.3.0</opentest4j.version>
-    <org.eclipse.osgi.version>3.23.100</org.eclipse.osgi.version>
+    <org.eclipse.osgi.version>3.24.200</org.eclipse.osgi.version>
     <oro.version>2.0.8</oro.version>
     <!-- The OSGi API version MUST always be the MINIMUM version Log4j supports -->
     <osgi.framework.version>1.10.0</osgi.framework.version>
@@ -137,10 +137,10 @@
     <osgi.annotation.bundle.version>2.0.0</osgi.annotation.bundle.version>
     <osgi.annotation.versioning.version>1.1.2</osgi.annotation.versioning.version>
     <pax-exam.version>4.14.0</pax-exam.version>
-    <spotbugs-annotations.version>4.9.3</spotbugs-annotations.version>
+    <spotbugs-annotations.version>4.10.4</spotbugs-annotations.version>
     <system-stubs.version>2.1.8</system-stubs.version>
     <velocity.version>1.7</velocity.version>
-    <xmlunit.version>2.10.3</xmlunit.version>
+    <xmlunit.version>2.13.0</xmlunit.version>
 
     <!-- =====================================================
          Pinned transitive dependency version properties (in alphabetical order)
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
          of dependencies (requireUpperBoundDeps rule).
          ===================================================== -->
     <!-- AssertJ and Mockito request different versions -->
-    <byte-buddy.version>1.17.6</byte-buddy.version>
+    <byte-buddy.version>1.18.12</byte-buddy.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/log4j-perf-test/pom.xml b/log4j-perf-test/pom.xml
index 2803d4ca53d..ac8e71cae08 100644
--- a/log4j-perf-test/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-perf-test/pom.xml
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
 
     <!-- Dependency versions -->
     <reload4j.version>1.2.26</reload4j.version>
-    <log4j2-ecs-layout.version>1.7.0</log4j2-ecs-layout.version>
-    <logback.version>1.5.18</logback.version>
-    <slf4j2.version>2.0.17</slf4j2.version>
+    <log4j2-ecs-layout.version>1.8.0</log4j2-ecs-layout.version>
+    <logback.version>1.6.3</logback.version>
+    <slf4j2.version>2.0.18</slf4j2.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/log4j-spring-cloud-config-client/pom.xml b/log4j-spring-cloud-config-client/pom.xml
index 807dcdc52b5..34df09d1ba8 100644
--- a/log4j-spring-cloud-config-client/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-spring-cloud-config-client/pom.xml
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
   <properties>
     <!-- Dependency version -->
     <spring-boot.version>3.5.3</spring-boot.version>
-    <commons-logging.version>1.3.5</commons-logging.version>
-    <spring-cloud.version>4.3.0</spring-cloud.version>
+    <commons-logging.version>1.4.0</commons-logging.version>
+    <spring-cloud.version>4.3.3</spring-cloud.version>
     <spring-framework.version>6.2.9</spring-framework.version>
 
     <!--
diff --git a/mvnw b/mvnw
index 14c58dcb002..bd8896bf221 100755
--- a/mvnw
+++ b/mvnw
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Apache Maven Wrapper startup batch script, version 3.3.2
+# Apache Maven Wrapper startup batch script, version 3.3.4
 #
 # Optional ENV vars
 # -----------------
@@ -105,14 +105,17 @@ trim() {
   printf "%s" "${1}" | tr -d '[:space:]'
 }
 
+scriptDir="$(dirname "$0")"
+scriptName="$(basename "$0")"
+
 # parse distributionUrl and optional distributionSha256Sum, requires .mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
 while IFS="=" read -r key value; do
   case "${key-}" in
   distributionUrl) distributionUrl=$(trim "${value-}") ;;
   distributionSha256Sum) distributionSha256Sum=$(trim "${value-}") ;;
   esac
-done <"${0%/*}/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties"
-[ -n "${distributionUrl-}" ] || die "cannot read distributionUrl property in ${0%/*}/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties"
+done <"$scriptDir/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties"
+[ -n "${distributionUrl-}" ] || die "cannot read distributionUrl property in $scriptDir/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties"
 
 case "${distributionUrl##*/}" in
 maven-mvnd-*bin.*)
@@ -130,7 +133,7 @@ maven-mvnd-*bin.*)
   distributionUrl="${distributionUrl%-bin.*}-$distributionPlatform.zip"
   ;;
 maven-mvnd-*) MVN_CMD=mvnd.sh _MVNW_REPO_PATTERN=/maven/mvnd/ ;;
-*) MVN_CMD="mvn${0##*/mvnw}" _MVNW_REPO_PATTERN=/org/apache/maven/ ;;
+*) MVN_CMD="mvn${scriptName#mvnw}" _MVNW_REPO_PATTERN=/org/apache/maven/ ;;
 esac
 
 # apply MVNW_REPOURL and calculate MAVEN_HOME
@@ -252,8 +255,41 @@ if command -v unzip >/dev/null; then
 else
   tar xzf${__MVNW_QUIET_TAR:+"$__MVNW_QUIET_TAR"} "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName" -C "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" || die "failed to untar"
 fi
-printf %s\\n "$distributionUrl" >"$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlNameMain/mvnw.url"
-mv -- "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlNameMain" "$MAVEN_HOME" || [ -d "$MAVEN_HOME" ] || die "fail to move MAVEN_HOME"
+
+# Find the actual extracted directory name (handles snapshots where filename != directory name)
+actualDistributionDir=""
+
+# First try the expected directory name (for regular distributions)
+if [ -d "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlNameMain" ]; then
+  if [ -f "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlNameMain/bin/$MVN_CMD" ]; then
+    actualDistributionDir="$distributionUrlNameMain"
+  fi
+fi
+
+# If not found, search for any directory with the Maven executable (for snapshots)
+if [ -z "$actualDistributionDir" ]; then
+  # enable globbing to iterate over items
+  set +f
+  for dir in "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR"/*; do
+    if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
+      if [ -f "$dir/bin/$MVN_CMD" ]; then
+        actualDistributionDir="$(basename "$dir")"
+        break
+      fi
+    fi
+  done
+  set -f
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$actualDistributionDir" ]; then
+  verbose "Contents of $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR:"
+  verbose "$(ls -la "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR")"
+  die "Could not find Maven distribution directory in extracted archive"
+fi
+
+verbose "Found extracted Maven distribution directory: $actualDistributionDir"
+printf %s\\n "$distributionUrl" >"$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$actualDistributionDir/mvnw.url"
+mv -- "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$actualDistributionDir" "$MAVEN_HOME" || [ -d "$MAVEN_HOME" ] || die "fail to move MAVEN_HOME"
 
 clean || :
 exec_maven "$@"
diff --git a/mvnw.cmd b/mvnw.cmd
index 249bdf38222..5761d948924 100644
--- a/mvnw.cmd
+++ b/mvnw.cmd
@@ -1,149 +1,189 @@
-<# : batch portion
-@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-@REM Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-@REM or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-@REM distributed with this work for additional information
-@REM regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-@REM to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-@REM "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-@REM with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-@REM
-@REM    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-@REM
-@REM Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-@REM software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-@REM "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-@REM KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-@REM specific language governing permissions and limitations
-@REM under the License.
-@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-@REM Apache Maven Wrapper startup batch script, version 3.3.2
-@REM
-@REM Optional ENV vars
-@REM   MVNW_REPOURL - repo url base for downloading maven distribution
-@REM   MVNW_USERNAME/MVNW_PASSWORD - user and password for downloading maven
-@REM   MVNW_VERBOSE - true: enable verbose log; others: silence the output
-@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-@IF "%__MVNW_ARG0_NAME__%"=="" (SET __MVNW_ARG0_NAME__=%~nx0)
-@SET __MVNW_CMD__=
-@SET __MVNW_ERROR__=
-@SET __MVNW_PSMODULEP_SAVE=%PSModulePath%
-@SET PSModulePath=
-@FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN (`powershell -noprofile "& {$scriptDir='%~dp0'; $script='%__MVNW_ARG0_NAME__%'; icm -ScriptBlock ([Scriptblock]::Create((Get-Content -Raw '%~f0'))) -NoNewScope}"`) DO @(
-  IF "%%A"=="MVN_CMD" (set __MVNW_CMD__=%%B) ELSE IF "%%B"=="" (echo %%A) ELSE (echo %%A=%%B)
-)
-@SET PSModulePath=%__MVNW_PSMODULEP_SAVE%
-@SET __MVNW_PSMODULEP_SAVE=
-@SET __MVNW_ARG0_NAME__=
-@SET MVNW_USERNAME=
-@SET MVNW_PASSWORD=
-@IF NOT "%__MVNW_CMD__%"=="" (%__MVNW_CMD__% %*)
-@echo Cannot start maven from wrapper >&2 && exit /b 1
-@GOTO :EOF
-: end batch / begin powershell #>
-
-$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
-if ($env:MVNW_VERBOSE -eq "true") {
-  $VerbosePreference = "Continue"
-}
-
-# calculate distributionUrl, requires .mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
-$distributionUrl = (Get-Content -Raw "$scriptDir/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties" | ConvertFrom-StringData).distributionUrl
-if (!$distributionUrl) {
-  Write-Error "cannot read distributionUrl property in $scriptDir/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties"
-}
-
-switch -wildcard -casesensitive ( $($distributionUrl -replace '^.*/','') ) {
-  "maven-mvnd-*" {
-    $USE_MVND = $true
-    $distributionUrl = $distributionUrl -replace '-bin\.[^.]*$',"-windows-amd64.zip"
-    $MVN_CMD = "mvnd.cmd"
-    break
-  }
-  default {
-    $USE_MVND = $false
-    $MVN_CMD = $script -replace '^mvnw','mvn'
-    break
-  }
-}
-
-# apply MVNW_REPOURL and calculate MAVEN_HOME
-# maven home pattern: ~/.m2/wrapper/dists/{apache-maven-<version>,maven-mvnd-<version>-<platform>}/<hash>
-if ($env:MVNW_REPOURL) {
-  $MVNW_REPO_PATTERN = if ($USE_MVND) { "/org/apache/maven/" } else { "/maven/mvnd/" }
-  $distributionUrl = "$env:MVNW_REPOURL$MVNW_REPO_PATTERN$($distributionUrl -replace '^.*'+$MVNW_REPO_PATTERN,'')"
-}
-$distributionUrlName = $distributionUrl -replace '^.*/',''
-$distributionUrlNameMain = $distributionUrlName -replace '\.[^.]*$','' -replace '-bin$',''
-$MAVEN_HOME_PARENT = "$HOME/.m2/wrapper/dists/$distributionUrlNameMain"
-if ($env:MAVEN_USER_HOME) {
-  $MAVEN_HOME_PARENT = "$env:MAVEN_USER_HOME/wrapper/dists/$distributionUrlNameMain"
-}
-$MAVEN_HOME_NAME = ([System.Security.Cryptography.MD5]::Create().ComputeHash([byte[]][char[]]$distributionUrl) | ForEach-Object {$_.ToString("x2")}) -join ''
-$MAVEN_HOME = "$MAVEN_HOME_PARENT/$MAVEN_HOME_NAME"
-
-if (Test-Path -Path "$MAVEN_HOME" -PathType Container) {
-  Write-Verbose "found existing MAVEN_HOME at $MAVEN_HOME"
-  Write-Output "MVN_CMD=$MAVEN_HOME/bin/$MVN_CMD"
-  exit $?
-}
-
-if (! $distributionUrlNameMain -or ($distributionUrlName -eq $distributionUrlNameMain)) {
-  Write-Error "distributionUrl is not valid, must end with *-bin.zip, but found $distributionUrl"
-}
-
-# prepare tmp dir
-$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR_HOLDER = New-TemporaryFile
-$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR = New-Item -Itemtype Directory -Path "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR_HOLDER.dir"
-$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR_HOLDER.Delete() | Out-Null
-trap {
-  if ($TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR.Exists) {
-    try { Remove-Item $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR -Recurse -Force | Out-Null }
-    catch { Write-Warning "Cannot remove $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" }
-  }
-}
-
-New-Item -Itemtype Directory -Path "$MAVEN_HOME_PARENT" -Force | Out-Null
-
-# Download and Install Apache Maven
-Write-Verbose "Couldn't find MAVEN_HOME, downloading and installing it ..."
-Write-Verbose "Downloading from: $distributionUrl"
-Write-Verbose "Downloading to: $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName"
-
-$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
-if ($env:MVNW_USERNAME -and $env:MVNW_PASSWORD) {
-  $webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($env:MVNW_USERNAME, $env:MVNW_PASSWORD)
-}
-[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
-$webclient.DownloadFile($distributionUrl, "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName") | Out-Null
-
-# If specified, validate the SHA-256 sum of the Maven distribution zip file
-$distributionSha256Sum = (Get-Content -Raw "$scriptDir/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties" | ConvertFrom-StringData).distributionSha256Sum
-if ($distributionSha256Sum) {
-  if ($USE_MVND) {
-    Write-Error "Checksum validation is not supported for maven-mvnd. `nPlease disable validation by removing 'distributionSha256Sum' from your maven-wrapper.properties."
-  }
-  Import-Module $PSHOME\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility -Function Get-FileHash
-  if ((Get-FileHash "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName" -Algorithm SHA256).Hash.ToLower() -ne $distributionSha256Sum) {
-    Write-Error "Error: Failed to validate Maven distribution SHA-256, your Maven distribution might be compromised. If you updated your Maven version, you need to update the specified distributionSha256Sum property."
-  }
-}
-
-# unzip and move
-Expand-Archive "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName" -DestinationPath "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" | Out-Null
-Rename-Item -Path "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlNameMain" -NewName $MAVEN_HOME_NAME | Out-Null
-try {
-  Move-Item -Path "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$MAVEN_HOME_NAME" -Destination $MAVEN_HOME_PARENT | Out-Null
-} catch {
-  if (! (Test-Path -Path "$MAVEN_HOME" -PathType Container)) {
-    Write-Error "fail to move MAVEN_HOME"
-  }
-} finally {
-  try { Remove-Item $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR -Recurse -Force | Out-Null }
-  catch { Write-Warning "Cannot remove $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" }
-}
-
-Write-Output "MVN_CMD=$MAVEN_HOME/bin/$MVN_CMD"
+<# : batch portion
+@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+@REM Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+@REM or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+@REM distributed with this work for additional information
+@REM regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+@REM to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+@REM "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+@REM with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+@REM
+@REM    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+@REM
+@REM Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+@REM software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+@REM "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+@REM KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+@REM specific language governing permissions and limitations
+@REM under the License.
+@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+@REM Apache Maven Wrapper startup batch script, version 3.3.4
+@REM
+@REM Optional ENV vars
+@REM   MVNW_REPOURL - repo url base for downloading maven distribution
+@REM   MVNW_USERNAME/MVNW_PASSWORD - user and password for downloading maven
+@REM   MVNW_VERBOSE - true: enable verbose log; others: silence the output
+@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+@IF "%__MVNW_ARG0_NAME__%"=="" (SET __MVNW_ARG0_NAME__=%~nx0)
+@SET __MVNW_CMD__=
+@SET __MVNW_ERROR__=
+@SET __MVNW_PSMODULEP_SAVE=%PSModulePath%
+@SET PSModulePath=
+@FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN (`powershell -noprofile "& {$scriptDir='%~dp0'; $script='%__MVNW_ARG0_NAME__%'; icm -ScriptBlock ([Scriptblock]::Create((Get-Content -Raw '%~f0'))) -NoNewScope}"`) DO @(
+  IF "%%A"=="MVN_CMD" (set __MVNW_CMD__=%%B) ELSE IF "%%B"=="" (echo %%A) ELSE (echo %%A=%%B)
+)
+@SET PSModulePath=%__MVNW_PSMODULEP_SAVE%
+@SET __MVNW_PSMODULEP_SAVE=
+@SET __MVNW_ARG0_NAME__=
+@SET MVNW_USERNAME=
+@SET MVNW_PASSWORD=
+@IF NOT "%__MVNW_CMD__%"=="" ("%__MVNW_CMD__%" %*)
+@echo Cannot start maven from wrapper >&2 && exit /b 1
+@GOTO :EOF
+: end batch / begin powershell #>
+
+$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
+if ($env:MVNW_VERBOSE -eq "true") {
+  $VerbosePreference = "Continue"
+}
+
+# calculate distributionUrl, requires .mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
+$distributionUrl = (Get-Content -Raw "$scriptDir/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties" | ConvertFrom-StringData).distributionUrl
+if (!$distributionUrl) {
+  Write-Error "cannot read distributionUrl property in $scriptDir/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties"
+}
+
+switch -wildcard -casesensitive ( $($distributionUrl -replace '^.*/','') ) {
+  "maven-mvnd-*" {
+    $USE_MVND = $true
+    $distributionUrl = $distributionUrl -replace '-bin\.[^.]*$',"-windows-amd64.zip"
+    $MVN_CMD = "mvnd.cmd"
+    break
+  }
+  default {
+    $USE_MVND = $false
+    $MVN_CMD = $script -replace '^mvnw','mvn'
+    break
+  }
+}
+
+# apply MVNW_REPOURL and calculate MAVEN_HOME
+# maven home pattern: ~/.m2/wrapper/dists/{apache-maven-<version>,maven-mvnd-<version>-<platform>}/<hash>
+if ($env:MVNW_REPOURL) {
+  $MVNW_REPO_PATTERN = if ($USE_MVND -eq $False) { "/org/apache/maven/" } else { "/maven/mvnd/" }
+  $distributionUrl = "$env:MVNW_REPOURL$MVNW_REPO_PATTERN$($distributionUrl -replace "^.*$MVNW_REPO_PATTERN",'')"
+}
+$distributionUrlName = $distributionUrl -replace '^.*/',''
+$distributionUrlNameMain = $distributionUrlName -replace '\.[^.]*$','' -replace '-bin$',''
+
+$MAVEN_M2_PATH = "$HOME/.m2"
+if ($env:MAVEN_USER_HOME) {
+  $MAVEN_M2_PATH = "$env:MAVEN_USER_HOME"
+}
+
+if (-not (Test-Path -Path $MAVEN_M2_PATH)) {
+    New-Item -Path $MAVEN_M2_PATH -ItemType Directory | Out-Null
+}
+
+$MAVEN_WRAPPER_DISTS = $null
+if ((Get-Item $MAVEN_M2_PATH).Target[0] -eq $null) {
+  $MAVEN_WRAPPER_DISTS = "$MAVEN_M2_PATH/wrapper/dists"
+} else {
+  $MAVEN_WRAPPER_DISTS = (Get-Item $MAVEN_M2_PATH).Target[0] + "/wrapper/dists"
+}
+
+$MAVEN_HOME_PARENT = "$MAVEN_WRAPPER_DISTS/$distributionUrlNameMain"
+$MAVEN_HOME_NAME = ([System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256]::Create().ComputeHash([byte[]][char[]]$distributionUrl) | ForEach-Object {$_.ToString("x2")}) -join ''
+$MAVEN_HOME = "$MAVEN_HOME_PARENT/$MAVEN_HOME_NAME"
+
+if (Test-Path -Path "$MAVEN_HOME" -PathType Container) {
+  Write-Verbose "found existing MAVEN_HOME at $MAVEN_HOME"
+  Write-Output "MVN_CMD=$MAVEN_HOME/bin/$MVN_CMD"
+  exit $?
+}
+
+if (! $distributionUrlNameMain -or ($distributionUrlName -eq $distributionUrlNameMain)) {
+  Write-Error "distributionUrl is not valid, must end with *-bin.zip, but found $distributionUrl"
+}
+
+# prepare tmp dir
+$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR_HOLDER = New-TemporaryFile
+$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR = New-Item -Itemtype Directory -Path "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR_HOLDER.dir"
+$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR_HOLDER.Delete() | Out-Null
+trap {
+  if ($TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR.Exists) {
+    try { Remove-Item $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR -Recurse -Force | Out-Null }
+    catch { Write-Warning "Cannot remove $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" }
+  }
+}
+
+New-Item -Itemtype Directory -Path "$MAVEN_HOME_PARENT" -Force | Out-Null
+
+# Download and Install Apache Maven
+Write-Verbose "Couldn't find MAVEN_HOME, downloading and installing it ..."
+Write-Verbose "Downloading from: $distributionUrl"
+Write-Verbose "Downloading to: $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName"
+
+$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
+if ($env:MVNW_USERNAME -and $env:MVNW_PASSWORD) {
+  $webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($env:MVNW_USERNAME, $env:MVNW_PASSWORD)
+}
+[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
+$webclient.DownloadFile($distributionUrl, "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName") | Out-Null
+
+# If specified, validate the SHA-256 sum of the Maven distribution zip file
+$distributionSha256Sum = (Get-Content -Raw "$scriptDir/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties" | ConvertFrom-StringData).distributionSha256Sum
+if ($distributionSha256Sum) {
+  if ($USE_MVND) {
+    Write-Error "Checksum validation is not supported for maven-mvnd. `nPlease disable validation by removing 'distributionSha256Sum' from your maven-wrapper.properties."
+  }
+  Import-Module $PSHOME\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility -Function Get-FileHash
+  if ((Get-FileHash "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName" -Algorithm SHA256).Hash.ToLower() -ne $distributionSha256Sum) {
+    Write-Error "Error: Failed to validate Maven distribution SHA-256, your Maven distribution might be compromised. If you updated your Maven version, you need to update the specified distributionSha256Sum property."
+  }
+}
+
+# unzip and move
+Expand-Archive "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$distributionUrlName" -DestinationPath "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" | Out-Null
+
+# Find the actual extracted directory name (handles snapshots where filename != directory name)
+$actualDistributionDir = ""
+
+# First try the expected directory name (for regular distributions)
+$expectedPath = Join-Path "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" "$distributionUrlNameMain"
+$expectedMvnPath = Join-Path "$expectedPath" "bin/$MVN_CMD"
+if ((Test-Path -Path $expectedPath -PathType Container) -and (Test-Path -Path $expectedMvnPath -PathType Leaf)) {
+  $actualDistributionDir = $distributionUrlNameMain
+}
+
+# If not found, search for any directory with the Maven executable (for snapshots)
+if (!$actualDistributionDir) {
+  Get-ChildItem -Path "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" -Directory | ForEach-Object {
+    $testPath = Join-Path $_.FullName "bin/$MVN_CMD"
+    if (Test-Path -Path $testPath -PathType Leaf) {
+      $actualDistributionDir = $_.Name
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+if (!$actualDistributionDir) {
+  Write-Error "Could not find Maven distribution directory in extracted archive"
+}
+
+Write-Verbose "Found extracted Maven distribution directory: $actualDistributionDir"
+Rename-Item -Path "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$actualDistributionDir" -NewName $MAVEN_HOME_NAME | Out-Null
+try {
+  Move-Item -Path "$TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR/$MAVEN_HOME_NAME" -Destination $MAVEN_HOME_PARENT | Out-Null
+} catch {
+  if (! (Test-Path -Path "$MAVEN_HOME" -PathType Container)) {
+    Write-Error "fail to move MAVEN_HOME"
+  }
+} finally {
+  try { Remove-Item $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR -Recurse -Force | Out-Null }
+  catch { Write-Warning "Cannot remove $TMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR" }
+}
+
+Write-Output "MVN_CMD=$MAVEN_HOME/bin/$MVN_CMD"
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b751fcee673..7cd50902107 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2024-11-09T05:50:28Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
 
     <!-- Version of Log4j API required -->
-    <log4j-api.version>2.25.5</log4j-api.version>
+    <log4j-api.version>2.26.1</log4j-api.version>
 
     <!-- ========================
          Site-specific properties
@@ -334,16 +334,16 @@
     <!-- Skipping `maven-site-plugin` globally. -->
     <maven.site.skip>true</maven.site.skip>
     <maven.site.deploy.skip>true</maven.site.deploy.skip>
-    <site-commons-csv.version>1.14.0</site-commons-csv.version>
-    <site-commons-logging.version>1.3.5</site-commons-logging.version>
+    <site-commons-csv.version>1.14.1</site-commons-csv.version>
+    <site-commons-logging.version>1.4.0</site-commons-logging.version>
     <site-conversant.version>1.2.21</site-conversant.version>
     <site-flume.version>1.11.0</site-flume.version>
     <site-je.version>18.3.12</site-je.version>
     <site-log4j-core.version>3.0.0-beta3</site-log4j-core.version>
     <site-log4j-jakarta.version>3.0.0-alpha1</site-log4j-jakarta.version>
     <site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>3.0.0-beta3</site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>
-    <site-logback.version>1.5.18</site-logback.version>
-    <site-slf4j.version>2.0.17</site-slf4j.version>
+    <site-logback.version>1.6.3</site-logback.version>
+    <site-slf4j.version>2.0.18</site-slf4j.version>
 
     <!-- =====================================================
          Direct dependency version properties (in alphabetical order)
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_biz.aqute.bnd_biz.aqute.bnd.annotation.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_biz.aqute.bnd_biz.aqute.bnd.annotation.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cd1a286e591
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_biz.aqute.bnd_biz.aqute.bnd.annotation.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `biz.aQute.bnd:biz.aQute.bnd.annotation` to version `7.4.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_ch.qos.logback_logback-classic.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_ch.qos.logback_logback-classic.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8eaa29e5751
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_ch.qos.logback_logback-classic.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `ch.qos.logback:logback-classic` to version `1.6.3`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_ch.qos.logback_logback-core.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_ch.qos.logback_logback-core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..10c519713b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_ch.qos.logback_logback-core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `ch.qos.logback:logback-core` to version `1.6.3`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_co.elastic.clients_elasticsearch-java.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_co.elastic.clients_elasticsearch-java.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..48bd6cbcc37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_co.elastic.clients_elasticsearch-java.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `co.elastic.clients:elasticsearch-java` to version `9.5.3`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_co.elastic.logging_log4j2-ecs-layout.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_co.elastic.logging_log4j2-ecs-layout.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..579af6be1df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_co.elastic.logging_log4j2-ecs-layout.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `co.elastic.logging:log4j2-ecs-layout` to version `1.8.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.fasterxml.jackson.core_jackson-databind.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.fasterxml.jackson.core_jackson-databind.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e65226adf73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.fasterxml.jackson.core_jackson-databind.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind` to version `2.22.2`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat_jackson-dataformat-yaml.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat_jackson-dataformat-yaml.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..62531ecf6d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat_jackson-dataformat-yaml.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml` to version `2.22.2`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.github.spotbugs_spotbugs-annotations.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.github.spotbugs_spotbugs-annotations.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fd9320626a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.github.spotbugs_spotbugs-annotations.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-annotations` to version `4.10.4`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.code.gson_gson.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.code.gson_gson.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2b5c31eb759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.code.gson_gson.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.google.code.gson:gson` to version `2.14.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.code.java-allocation-instrumenter_java-allocation-instrumenter.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.code.java-allocation-instrumenter_java-allocation-instrumenter.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..64ffeef2aea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.code.java-allocation-instrumenter_java-allocation-instrumenter.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.google.code.java-allocation-instrumenter:java-allocation-instrumenter` to version `3.3.5`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.jimfs_jimfs.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.jimfs_jimfs.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ac0ff19419e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.google.jimfs_jimfs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.google.jimfs:jimfs` to version `1.3.2`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.h2database_h2.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.h2database_h2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..47c83101255
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_com.h2database_h2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.h2database:h2` to version `2.4.240`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-codec_commons-codec.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-codec_commons-codec.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..65b5e837acc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-codec_commons-codec.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `commons-codec:commons-codec` to version `1.22.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-io_commons-io.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-io_commons-io.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e66dda98c9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-io_commons-io.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `commons-io:commons-io` to version `2.22.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-logging_commons-logging.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-logging_commons-logging.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a1ac406281a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons-logging_commons-logging.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `commons-logging:commons-logging` to version `1.4.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_io.fabric8_docker-maven-plugin.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_io.fabric8_docker-maven-plugin.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..38fb341c571
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_io.fabric8_docker-maven-plugin.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `io.fabric8:docker-maven-plugin` to version `0.49.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_net.bytebuddy_byte-buddy.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_net.bytebuddy_byte-buddy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..12860fdb1ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_net.bytebuddy_byte-buddy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy` to version `1.18.12`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-compress.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-compress.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b820944e035
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-compress.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.commons:commons-compress` to version `1.28.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-csv.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-csv.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b9b865346c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-csv.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.commons:commons-csv` to version `1.14.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-dbcp2.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-dbcp2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..11cc90596a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-dbcp2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2` to version `2.14.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-lang3.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-lang3.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..42088545f5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.commons_commons-lang3.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.commons:commons-lang3` to version `3.20.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-api-test.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-api-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..36c448ab61b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-api-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api-test` to version `2.26.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-api.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-api.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2dbdb4a623d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-api.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api` to version `2.26.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-iostreams.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-iostreams.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2bbc596e2e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-iostreams.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-iostreams` to version `2.26.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-jpl.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-jpl.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..849fd538c29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-jpl.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-jpl` to version `2.26.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-slf4j-impl.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-slf4j-impl.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f659c24160c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-slf4j-impl.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j-impl` to version `2.26.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-slf4j2-impl.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-slf4j2-impl.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..64da00431bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-slf4j2-impl.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j2-impl` to version `2.26.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-to-jul.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-to-jul.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ad1d9a9e956
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-to-jul.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-to-jul` to version `2.26.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-to-slf4j.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-to-slf4j.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e9197161548
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.logging.log4j_log4j-to-slf4j.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-to-slf4j` to version `2.26.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.maven.wrapper_maven-wrapper.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.maven.wrapper_maven-wrapper.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f63acd2dfa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.maven.wrapper_maven-wrapper.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.maven.wrapper:maven-wrapper` to version `3.3.4`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.maven_apache-maven.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.maven_apache-maven.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6c8c0e77d3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.apache.maven_apache-maven.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.maven:apache-maven` to version `3.9.16`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.assertj_assertj-core.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.assertj_assertj-core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0e1f3cca48e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.assertj_assertj-core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.assertj:assertj-core` to version `3.27.7`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.eclipse.platform_org.eclipse.osgi.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.eclipse.platform_org.eclipse.osgi.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c3acd9da85b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.eclipse.platform_org.eclipse.osgi.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.osgi` to version `3.24.200`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.elasticsearch.client_elasticsearch-rest-client.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.elasticsearch.client_elasticsearch-rest-client.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ae2009c77a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.elasticsearch.client_elasticsearch-rest-client.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client` to version `9.5.3`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.javassist_javassist.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.javassist_javassist.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5e00cb4a781
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.javassist_javassist.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.javassist:javassist` to version `3.33.0-GA`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jctools_jctools-core.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jctools_jctools-core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b9695765ac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jctools_jctools-core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.jctools:jctools-core` to version `4.0.7`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jmdns_jmdns.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jmdns_jmdns.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1b7ecc84330
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jmdns_jmdns.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.jmdns:jmdns` to version `3.6.3`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jspecify_jspecify.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jspecify_jspecify.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..281904d447f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.jspecify_jspecify.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.jspecify:jspecify` to version `1.0.1`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mockito_mockito-bom.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mockito_mockito-bom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c58236832f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mockito_mockito-bom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.mockito:mockito-bom` to version `5.23.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_bson.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_bson.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ba718790218
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_bson.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.mongodb:bson` to version `5.11.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_mongodb-driver-core.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_mongodb-driver-core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d39e1cae72a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_mongodb-driver-core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.mongodb:mongodb-driver-core` to version `5.11.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_mongodb-driver-sync.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_mongodb-driver-sync.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a3b5ff10ca2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.mongodb_mongodb-driver-sync.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.mongodb:mongodb-driver-sync` to version `5.11.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.openjdk.nashorn_nashorn-core.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.openjdk.nashorn_nashorn-core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f00cef9a096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.openjdk.nashorn_nashorn-core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.openjdk.nashorn:nashorn-core` to version `15.7`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-api.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-api.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8183b79da2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-api.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.slf4j:slf4j-api` to version `2.0.18`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-nop.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-nop.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d9f60cf4165
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-nop.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.slf4j:slf4j-nop` to version `2.0.18`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-simple.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-simple.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..349d0c56780
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.slf4j_slf4j-simple.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.slf4j:slf4j-simple` to version `2.0.18`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.springframework.cloud_spring-cloud-context.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.springframework.cloud_spring-cloud-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f6589820504
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.springframework.cloud_spring-cloud-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-context` to version `4.3.3`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.tukaani_xz.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.tukaani_xz.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d058a054a62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.tukaani_xz.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.tukaani:xz` to version `1.12`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.xmlunit_xmlunit-core.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.xmlunit_xmlunit-core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cfb804654ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.xmlunit_xmlunit-core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core` to version `2.13.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.xmlunit_xmlunit-matchers.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.xmlunit_xmlunit-matchers.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0f5ea93b445
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org.xmlunit_xmlunit-matchers.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.xmlunit:xmlunit-matchers` to version `2.13.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_tools.jackson_jackson-bom.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_tools.jackson_jackson-bom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a897ff28d4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_tools.jackson_jackson-bom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="4313" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4313"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `tools.jackson:jackson-bom` to version `3.2.2`</description>
+</entry>