From 68e03e1a7931c9f09a54829fa1dd955c28b41b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "dependabot[bot]" <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:14:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Bump com.datastax.cassandra:cassandra-driver-core from
 3.11.5 to 4.0.0

Bumps [com.datastax.cassandra:cassandra-driver-core](https://github.com/datastax/java-driver) from 3.11.5 to 4.0.0.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/datastax/java-driver/releases)
- [Commits](https://github.com/datastax/java-driver/compare/3.11.5...4.0.0)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: com.datastax.cassandra:cassandra-driver-core
  dependency-version: 4.0.0
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-major
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
---
 log4j-parent/pom.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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>

From 3623b5dccc7b85bb1c0569620eeb13d34e2faeb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "github-actions[bot]"
 <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:14:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Generate changelog entries for #4210

---
 ...pdate_com.datastax.cassandra_cassandra-driver-core.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com.datastax.cassandra_cassandra-driver-core.xml

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>