diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 9c6632cc18d..b4c4acbb3bf 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
     <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>
     <log4j-transform.version>0.2.0</log4j-transform.version>
     <log4j2-cachefile-transformer.version>2.15.0</log4j2-cachefile-transformer.version>
-    <log4j2-ecs-layout.version>1.6.0</log4j2-ecs-layout.version>
+    <log4j2-ecs-layout.version>1.7.0</log4j2-ecs-layout.version>
     <logback.version>1.3.15</logback.version>
     <maven.version>3.9.9</maven.version>
     <mockito.version>4.11.0</mockito.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_co_elastic_logging_log4j2_ecs_layout.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_co_elastic_logging_log4j2_ecs_layout.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..609183e5ce3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_co_elastic_logging_log4j2_ecs_layout.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="3615" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3615"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `co.elastic.logging:log4j2-ecs-layout` to version `1.7.0`</description>
+</entry>