diff --git a/log4j-transform-maven-shade-plugin-extensions/pom.xml b/log4j-transform-maven-shade-plugin-extensions/pom.xml
index 82d04043..93e8db6e 100644
--- a/log4j-transform-maven-shade-plugin-extensions/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-transform-maven-shade-plugin-extensions/pom.xml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
-      <version>3.6.0</version>
+      <version>3.6.1</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
 
diff --git a/src/changelog/.0.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_plugins_maven_shade_plugin.xml b/src/changelog/.0.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_plugins_maven_shade_plugin.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dbce5543
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.0.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_plugins_maven_shade_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="223" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-transform/pull/223"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-shade-plugin` to version `3.6.1`</description>
+</entry>