diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 33c3c9ac70a..8084ac9013d 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
     <mockito.version>4.11.0</mockito.version>
     <nashorn.version>15.6</nashorn.version>
     <org.eclipse.osgi.version>3.23.100</org.eclipse.osgi.version>
-    <org.eclipse.persistence.version>2.7.15</org.eclipse.persistence.version>
+    <org.eclipse.persistence.version>2.7.16</org.eclipse.persistence.version>
     <oro.version>2.0.8</oro.version>
     <!-- The OSGi API version MUST always be the MINIMUM version Log4j supports: -->
     <osgi.api.version>6.0.0</osgi.api.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_eclipse_persistence_org_eclipse_persistence_jpa.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_eclipse_persistence_org_eclipse_persistence_jpa.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eb8c8ba8d0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_eclipse_persistence_org_eclipse_persistence_jpa.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="3769" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3769"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.eclipse.persistence:org.eclipse.persistence.jpa` to version `2.7.16`</description>
+</entry>