diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 68b34d2d0..4b1a550f0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 - (Feature) Improve Gateway Config gen
 - (Feature) Integration Service TLS
 - (Feature) (Gateway) SNI and Authz support
+- (Maintenance) Bump Examples to ArangoDB 3.12
 
 ## [1.2.42](https://github.com/arangodb/kube-arangodb/tree/1.2.42) (2024-07-23)
 - (Maintenance) Go 1.22.4 & Kubernetes 1.29.6 libraries
diff --git a/examples/cluster1-with-sync.yaml b/examples/cluster1-with-sync.yaml
index 28e173856..4c85b4bff 100644
--- a/examples/cluster1-with-sync.yaml
+++ b/examples/cluster1-with-sync.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ metadata:
   name: "cluster1-with-sync"
 spec:
   mode: Cluster
-  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.10.8'
+  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.12.2'
   tls:
     altNames: ["kube-01", "kube-02", "kube-03"]
   sync:
diff --git a/examples/cluster2-with-sync.yaml b/examples/cluster2-with-sync.yaml
index 2b11e0d25..c4180e602 100644
--- a/examples/cluster2-with-sync.yaml
+++ b/examples/cluster2-with-sync.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ metadata:
   name: "cluster2-with-sync"
 spec:
   mode: Cluster
-  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.10.8'
+  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.12.2'
   tls:
     altNames: ["kube-01", "kube-02", "kube-03"]
   sync:
diff --git a/examples/production-cluster-with-metrics.yaml b/examples/production-cluster-with-metrics.yaml
index d04b4f9ae..d03b6b4c0 100644
--- a/examples/production-cluster-with-metrics.yaml
+++ b/examples/production-cluster-with-metrics.yaml
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ spec:
     prometheus.io/port: '9101'
     prometheus.io/scrape_interval: '5s'
   mode: Cluster
-  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.10.8'
+  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.12.2'
   environment: Production
diff --git a/examples/production-cluster.yaml b/examples/production-cluster.yaml
index 44aec8847..4b95c8716 100644
--- a/examples/production-cluster.yaml
+++ b/examples/production-cluster.yaml
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ metadata:
   name: "production-cluster"
 spec:
   mode: Cluster
-  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.10.8'
+  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.12.2'
   environment: Production
diff --git a/examples/reboot-pod.yaml b/examples/reboot-pod.yaml
index 2eb730071..34fd6ec09 100644
--- a/examples/reboot-pod.yaml
+++ b/examples/reboot-pod.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ spec:
       command: ["arangodb_operator", "reboot"]
       args:
         - --deployment-name=my-arangodb-cluster
-        - --image-name=arangodb/enterprise:3.10.8
+        - --image-name=arangodb/enterprise:3.12.2
         - --license-secret-name=arangodb-license-key
         - --coordinators=3
         - pvc-9aa241f7-df94-11e9-b74c-42010aac0044
diff --git a/examples/simple-cluster-with-metrics.yaml b/examples/simple-cluster-with-metrics.yaml
index d4f64e713..36a94a69a 100644
--- a/examples/simple-cluster-with-metrics.yaml
+++ b/examples/simple-cluster-with-metrics.yaml
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ spec:
     prometheus.io/port: '9101'
     prometheus.io/scrape_interval: '5s'
   mode: Cluster
-  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.10.8'
+  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.12.2'
diff --git a/examples/simple-cluster.yaml b/examples/simple-cluster.yaml
index a5601c125..be7f42cf8 100644
--- a/examples/simple-cluster.yaml
+++ b/examples/simple-cluster.yaml
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ metadata:
   name: "example-simple-cluster"
 spec:
   mode: Cluster
-  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.10.8'
+  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.12.2'
diff --git a/examples/single-server.yaml b/examples/single-server.yaml
index 8fc6dda61..59197993a 100644
--- a/examples/single-server.yaml
+++ b/examples/single-server.yaml
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ metadata:
   name: "example-simple-single"
 spec:
   mode: Single
-  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.10.8'
+  image: 'arangodb/arangodb:3.12.2'