diff --git a/.github/workflows/merge-dependabot.yaml b/.github/workflows/merge-dependabot.yaml
index d33dab1..70c2129 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/merge-dependabot.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/merge-dependabot.yaml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
 
   merge-dependabot:
     needs: build
-    uses: apache/logging-parent/.github/workflows/merge-dependabot-reusable.yaml@rel/11.3.0
+    uses: apache/logging-parent/.github/workflows/merge-dependabot-reusable.yaml@rel/12.0.0
     permissions:
       contents: write                                             # to push changelog commits
       pull-requests: write                                        # to close the PR
diff --git a/src/changelog/.13.x.x/update_apache_logging_parent_github_workflows_merge_dependabot_reusable_yaml_rel_11_3_0.xml b/src/changelog/.13.x.x/update_apache_logging_parent_github_workflows_merge_dependabot_reusable_yaml_rel_11_3_0.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..045a044
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.13.x.x/update_apache_logging_parent_github_workflows_merge_dependabot_reusable_yaml_rel_11_3_0.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="73" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-scala/pull/73"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `apache/logging-parent/.github/workflows/merge-dependabot-reusable.yaml@rel/11.3.0` to version `12.0.0`</description>
+</entry>