diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 90937cb98de7..358547b0057a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -263,6 +263,8 @@
   [#9150](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/9150)
 - Bumped resty.cassandra from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2
   [#8845](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/8845)
+- Bumped penlight from 1.12.0 to 1.13.1
+  [#9206](https://github.com/Kong/kong/pull/9206)
 
 ### Additions
 
diff --git a/kong-3.0.0-0.rockspec b/kong-3.0.0-0.rockspec
index 3c26baff03ee..309c7fdd3bbb 100644
--- a/kong-3.0.0-0.rockspec
+++ b/kong-3.0.0-0.rockspec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ dependencies = {
   "inspect == 3.1.3",
   "luasec == 1.2.0",
   "luasocket == 3.0-rc1",
-  "penlight == 1.12.0",
+  "penlight == 1.13.1",
   "lua-resty-http ~> 0.17",
   "lua-resty-jit-uuid == 0.0.7",
   "lua-ffi-zlib == 0.5",