diff --git a/log4j-core-its/pom.xml b/log4j-core-its/pom.xml
index 49f770b883c..e657b86c210 100644
--- a/log4j-core-its/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-core-its/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     <spotbugs.skip>true</spotbugs.skip>
 
     <!-- Dependency versions -->
-    <slf4j2.version>2.0.16</slf4j2.version>
+    <slf4j2.version>2.0.17</slf4j2.version>
 
   </properties>
 
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_slf4j_slf4j_api.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_slf4j_slf4j_api.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a8f0ac58632
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_slf4j_slf4j_api.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="3492" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3492"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.slf4j:slf4j-api` to version `2.0.17`</description>
+</entry>