diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 28c371abefa..38d1d0afd70 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     <bsh.version>2.0b6</bsh.version>
     <bnd.annotation.version>7.3.0</bnd.annotation.version>
     <cassandra.version>3.11.19</cassandra.version>
-    <cassandra-driver.version>3.11.5</cassandra-driver.version>
+    <cassandra-driver.version>4.0.0</cassandra-driver.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.22.0</commons-codec.version>
     <commons-compress.version>1.28.0</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.14.1</commons-csv.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com.datastax.cassandra_cassandra-driver-core.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com.datastax.cassandra_cassandra-driver-core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d418d9c2612
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com.datastax.cassandra_cassandra-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="4210" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4210"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.datastax.cassandra:cassandra-driver-core` to version `4.0.0`</description>
+</entry>