diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f72ebc66..357fb043 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
     <!-- `findsecbugs-plugin:1.13.0` contains a bug blocking Log4j compilation: https://github.com/find-sec-bugs/find-sec-bugs/pull/728
          Hence, pinning the `1.12.0` instead. -->
     <findsecbugs-plugin.version>1.14.0</findsecbugs-plugin.version>
-    <groovy.version>4.0.27</groovy.version>
+    <groovy.version>5.0.0</groovy.version>
 
     <!-- site-specific versions -->
     <!-- We use a separate property than `project.version` to refer to the most recent _published_ version of the project. -->
diff --git a/src/changelog/.12.x.x/update_org_apache_groovy_groovy.xml b/src/changelog/.12.x.x/update_org_apache_groovy_groovy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..30e1a960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.12.x.x/update_org_apache_groovy_groovy.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="435" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-parent/pull/435"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.groovy:groovy` to version `5.0.0`</description>
+</entry>