diff --git a/log4j-transform-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-transform-parent/pom.xml
index 5f541c7..3444231 100644
--- a/log4j-transform-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-transform-parent/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     <!-- dependency versions -->
     <asm.version>9.8</asm.version>
     <assertj.version>3.27.3</assertj.version>
-    <commons-lang.version>3.17.0</commons-lang.version>
+    <commons-lang.version>3.18.0</commons-lang.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.3.5</commons-logging.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.19.0</commons-io.version>
     <jmh.version>1.37</jmh.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.0.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_lang3.xml b/src/changelog/.0.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_lang3.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c857e75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.0.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_lang3.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="205" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-transform/pull/205"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.commons:commons-lang3` to version `3.18.0`</description>
+</entry>