diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 697262750a..7835b6e40f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 3.0.30
+ * Fix CQLSH online help topic link (CASSANDRA-17534)
  * Remove unused suppressions (CASSANDRA-18724)
  * Upgrade OWASP to 8.3.1 (CASSANDRA-18650)
  * Suppress CVE-2023-34462 (CASSANDRA-18649)
diff --git a/bin/cqlsh.py b/bin/cqlsh.py
index 03fe0c56f6..3e5cac1470 100644
--- a/bin/cqlsh.py
+++ b/bin/cqlsh.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ except ImportError:
 CQL_LIB_PREFIX = 'cassandra-driver-internal-only-'
 
 CASSANDRA_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), '..')
-CASSANDRA_CQL_HTML_FALLBACK = 'https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL-3.0.html'
+CASSANDRA_CQL_HTML_FALLBACK = 'https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/cql/cql_singlefile.html'
 
 # default location of local CQL.html
 if os.path.exists(CASSANDRA_PATH + '/doc/cql3/CQL.html'):