diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 983d9b6601..336ae65b11 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@
  * Add isolated flush timer to CommitLogMetrics and ensure writes correspond to single WaitingOnCommit data points (CASSANDRA-16701)
  * 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)
+ * Update JNA library to 5.9.0 and snappy-java to version 1.1.8.4 (CASSANDRA-17040)
+
 Merged from 4.0:
  * Update ant-junit to version 1.10.12 (CASSANDRA-17218)
  * Add droppable tombstone metrics to nodetool tablestats (CASSANDRA-16308)
diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 07ee8a4f89..b46fb56496 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ Upgrading
       confirm it is set to value lower than 31 otherwise Cassandra will fail to start. See CASSANDRA-9384
       for further details. You also need to regenerate passwords for users for who the password
       was created while the above property was set to be more than 30 otherwise they will not be able to log in.
+    - JNA library was updated from 5.6.0 to 5.9.0. In version 5.7.0, Darwin support for M1 devices
+      was fixed but prebuild native library for Darwin x86 (32bit Java on Mac OS) was removed.
 
 Deprecation
 -----------
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 3f735ae7a2..21e8739165 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
         <license name="The Apache Software License, Version 2.0" url="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"/>
         <scm connection="${scm.connection}" developerConnection="${scm.developerConnection}" url="${scm.url}"/>
         <dependencyManagement>
-          <dependency groupId="org.xerial.snappy" artifactId="snappy-java" version="1.1.2.6"/>
+          <dependency groupId="org.xerial.snappy" artifactId="snappy-java" version="1.1.8.4"/>
           <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="1.5.0-4"/>
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
             <exclusion groupId="org.codehaus.jackson" artifactId="jackson-mapper-asl"/>
             <exclusion groupId="org.slf4j" artifactId="slf4j-api"/>
           </dependency>
-          <dependency groupId="net.java.dev.jna" artifactId="jna" version="5.6.0"/>
+          <dependency groupId="net.java.dev.jna" artifactId="jna" version="5.9.0"/>
 
           <dependency groupId="org.jacoco" artifactId="org.jacoco.agent" version="${jacoco.version}" scope="test"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.jacoco" artifactId="org.jacoco.ant" version="${jacoco.version}" scope="test">