diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 18dca097ed..164470fb57 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
  * Nodetool upgradesstables/scrub/compact ignores system tables (CASSANDRA-13410)
  * Fix NPE issue in StorageService (CASSANDRA-13060)
 Merged from 2.2:
+ * upgrade JNA version to 4.4.0 (CASSANDRA-13072)
+ * nodetool upgradesstables should upgrade system tables (CASSANDRA-13119)
  * Avoid starting gossiper in RemoveTest (CASSANDRA-13407)
  * Fix weightedSize() for row-cache reported by JMX and NodeTool (CASSANDRA-13393)
  * Honor truststore-password parameter in cassandra-stress (CASSANDRA-12773)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index ce12b90b5f..de6564a143 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.hadoop" artifactId="hadoop-minicluster" version="1.0.3">
 		    <exclusion groupId="asm" artifactId="asm"/> <!-- this is the outdated version 3.1 -->
           </dependency>
-          <dependency groupId="net.java.dev.jna" artifactId="jna" version="4.0.0"/>
+          <dependency groupId="net.java.dev.jna" artifactId="jna" version="4.4.0"/>
 
           <dependency groupId="org.jacoco" artifactId="org.jacoco.agent" version="${jacoco.version}"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.jacoco" artifactId="org.jacoco.ant" version="${jacoco.version}"/>
diff --git a/lib/jna-4.0.0.jar b/lib/jna-4.0.0.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 9038048dc2..0000000000
Binary files a/lib/jna-4.0.0.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/lib/jna-4.4.0.jar b/lib/jna-4.4.0.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..521bd92f6a
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/jna-4.4.0.jar differ
diff --git a/lib/licenses/jna-4.0.0.txt b/lib/licenses/jna-4.4.0.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from lib/licenses/jna-4.0.0.txt
rename to lib/licenses/jna-4.4.0.txt