diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 5517c43c0c9..d5d2b4e909c 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
          Direct dependency version properties (in alphabetical order)
          ===================================================== -->
     <activemq.version>6.0.1</activemq.version>
-    <angus-activation.version>2.0.1</angus-activation.version>
+    <angus-activation.version>2.0.2</angus-activation.version>
     <angus-mail.version>2.0.2</angus-mail.version>
     <assertj.version>3.25.3</assertj.version>
     <awaitility.version>4.2.0</awaitility.version>
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     <commons-codec.version>1.16.1</commons-codec.version>
     <commons-compress.version>1.26.0</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.10.0</commons-csv.version>
-    <commons-dbcp2.version>2.11.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
+    <commons-dbcp2.version>2.12.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.15.1</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.14.0</commons-lang3.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.3.0</commons-logging.version>
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
     <flapdoodle-embed.version>4.9.0</flapdoodle-embed.version>
     <flapdoodle-reverse.version>1.7.2</flapdoodle-reverse.version>
     <flume.version>1.11.0</flume.version>
-    <groovy.version>3.0.20</groovy.version>
+    <groovy.version>3.0.21</groovy.version>
     <guava.version>33.0.0-jre</guava.version>
     <h2.version>2.2.224</h2.version>
     <hadoop.version>1.2.1</hadoop.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_dbcp2.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_dbcp2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..381c541d8cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_dbcp2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.3.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="2344" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2344"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2` to version `2.12.0`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_codehaus_groovy_groovy_bom.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_codehaus_groovy_groovy_bom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a311d4c02a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_codehaus_groovy_groovy_bom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.3.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="2345" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2345"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-bom` to version `3.0.21`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_eclipse_angus_angus_activation.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_eclipse_angus_angus_activation.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..82d35ab9c4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_eclipse_angus_angus_activation.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.3.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="2336" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2336"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.eclipse.angus:angus-activation` to version `2.0.2`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc b/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
index d7acc079e28..5ebe9f3983e 100644
--- a/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
+++ b/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
@@ -26,13 +26,15 @@ This releases contains ...
 [#release-notes-2-x-x-changed]
 === Changed
 
+* Fix handling of `LoggerContextAware` lookups. (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2309[2309])
 * Improve performance of `CloseableThreadContext#closeMap()` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2296[2296])
 
 [#release-notes-2-x-x-fixed]
 === Fixed
 
-* Add `log4j2.StatusLogger.DateFormatZone` system property to set the time-zone `StatusLogger` uses to format `java.time.Instant`. Without this formatting patterns accessing to time-zone-specific fields (e.g., year-of-era) cause failures.
-* Fix stack overflow in `StatusLogger`
+* Fix `StatusLogger` log level filtering when debug mode is enabled (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/2337[2337])
+* Add `log4j2.StatusLogger.DateFormatZone` system property to set the time-zone `StatusLogger` uses to format `java.time.Instant`. Without this formatting patterns accessing to time-zone-specific fields (e.g., year-of-era) cause failures. (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2322[2322])
+* Fix stack overflow in `StatusLogger` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2322[2322])
 
 [#release-notes-2-x-x-updated]
 === Updated
@@ -44,4 +46,7 @@ This releases contains ...
 * Update `io.fabric8:docker-maven-plugin` to version `0.44.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2299[2299])
 * Update `jakarta.activation:jakarta.activation-api` to version `2.1.3` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2335[2335])
 * Update `org.apache.commons:commons-compress` to version `1.26.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2304[2304])
+* Update `org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2` to version `2.12.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2344[2344])
 * Update `org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients` to version `3.7.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2326[2326])
+* Update `org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-bom` to version `3.0.21` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2345[2345])
+* Update `org.eclipse.angus:angus-activation` to version `2.0.2` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2336[2336])