diff --git a/.build/parent-pom-template.xml b/.build/parent-pom-template.xml
index ba48cbd542..fcdea1465c 100644
--- a/.build/parent-pom-template.xml
+++ b/.build/parent-pom-template.xml
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.github.luben</groupId>
         <artifactId>zstd-jni</artifactId>
-        <version>1.5.4-1</version>
+        <version>1.5.5-1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 7e6669d6cb..64542882a9 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@
  * Fix COPY ... TO STDOUT behavior in cqlsh (CASSANDRA-18353)
  * Remove six and Py2SaferScanner merge cruft (CASSANDRA-18354)
 Merged from 4.0:
+ * Update zstd-jni library to version 1.5.5 (CASSANDRA-18429)
 Merged from 3.11:
  * Suppress CVE-2022-45688 (CASSANDRA-18389)
 Merged from 3.0: