diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 9828159288..4f63c3db4d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
  * Add a system property to set hostId if not yet initialized (CASSANDRA-14582)
  * GossiperTest.testHasVersion3Nodes didn't take into account trunk version changes, fixed to rely on latest version (CASSANDRA-16651)
 Merged from 4.0:
+ * Bump zstd-jni version to 1.5.0-4 (CASSANDRA-16884)
  * Remove assumption that all urgent messages are small (CASSANDRA-16877)
  * ArrayClustering.unsharedHeapSize does not include the data so undercounts the heap size (CASSANDRA-16845)
  * Improve help, doc and error messages about sstabledump -k and -x arguments (CASSANDRA-16818)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 6d028a5dbd..16dd96fe39 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@
           <dependency groupId="org.xerial.snappy" artifactId="snappy-java" version="1.1.2.6"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.lz4" artifactId="lz4-java" version="1.8.0"/>
           <dependency groupId="com.ning" artifactId="compress-lzf" version="0.8.4" scope="provided"/>
-          <dependency groupId="com.github.luben" artifactId="zstd-jni" version="1.3.8-5"/>
+          <dependency groupId="com.github.luben" artifactId="zstd-jni" version="1.5.0-4"/>
           <dependency groupId="com.google.guava" artifactId="guava" version="27.0-jre">
             <exclusion groupId="com.google.code.findbugs" artifactId="jsr305" />
             <exclusion groupId="org.codehaus.mojo" artifactId="animal-sniffer-annotations" />