diff --git a/.changes/next-release/feature-AWSSDKforJavav2-66f659e.json b/.changes/next-release/feature-AWSSDKforJavav2-66f659e.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ae0ff409d822
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/next-release/feature-AWSSDKforJavav2-66f659e.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2", 
+    "contributor": "", 
+    "type": "feature", 
+    "description": "Upgrade Netty version to 4.1.60"
+}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e82f02b1fa64..55f3ad8f5905 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
         <equalsverifier.version>3.5</equalsverifier.version>
         <!-- Update netty-open-ssl-version accordingly whenever we update netty version-->
         <!-- https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/pom.xml#L384 -->
-        <netty.version>4.1.59.Final</netty.version>
+        <netty.version>4.1.60.Final</netty.version>
         <unitils.version>3.3</unitils.version>
         <xmlunit.version>1.3</xmlunit.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>