diff --git a/flume-parent/pom.xml b/flume-parent/pom.xml
index 00c1969ad4..9b221f480e 100644
--- a/flume-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/flume-parent/pom.xml
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
         <!-- add this to satisfy the dependency requirement of apacheds-jdbm1 in minikdc-->
         <groupId>org.apache.directory.jdbm</groupId>
         <artifactId>apacheds-jdbm1</artifactId>
-        <version>2.0.0-M2</version>
+        <version>2.0.0-M3</version>
         <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
 
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org.apache.directory.jdbm_apacheds-jdbm1.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org.apache.directory.jdbm_apacheds-jdbm1.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5a9531a497
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org.apache.directory.jdbm_apacheds-jdbm1.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="481" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-flume/pull/481"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.directory.jdbm:apacheds-jdbm1` to version `2.0.0-M3`</description>
+</entry>