diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 8f5e6e97c4..a53af692fd 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 4.0-beta5
+ * Upgrade Jacoco to 0.8.6 (for Java 11 support) (CASSANDRA-16365)
  * Move excessive repair debug loggings to trace level (CASSANDRA-16406)
  * Restore validation of each message's protocol version (CASSANDRA-16374)
  * Upgrade netty and chronicle-queue dependencies to get Auditing and native library loading working on arm64 architectures (CASSANDRA-16384,CASSANDRA-16392)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 4f636f1022..523ee90644 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
     <property name="jacoco.partials.dir" value="${jacoco.export.dir}/partials" />
     <property name="jacoco.partialexecfile" value="${jacoco.partials.dir}/partial.exec" />
     <property name="jacoco.finalexecfile" value="${jacoco.export.dir}/jacoco.exec" />
-    <property name="jacoco.version" value="0.7.5.201505241946"/>
+    <property name="jacoco.version" value="0.8.6"/>
 
     <property name="byteman.version" value="4.0.6"/>
     <property name="jamm.version" value="0.3.2"/>