diff --git a/.chloggen/update-nodejs.yaml b/.chloggen/update-nodejs.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..016fdbc8e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/update-nodejs.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. agent, clusterReceiver, gateway, networkExplorer, operator, chart, other)
+component: operator
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Bump nodejs to v2.6.0 in helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1080]
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
diff --git a/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml b/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
index 4aa9d972bc..a2f1334cc0 100644
--- a/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
+++ b/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ spec:
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
         value: splunk.zc.method=autoinstrumentation-nginx:1.0.3
   nodejs:
-    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-js/splunk-otel-js:v2.5.1
+    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-js/splunk-otel-js:v2.6.0
     env:
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
-        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-js:v2.5.1
+        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-js:v2.6.0
   python:
     image: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/autoinstrumentation-python:0.41b0
     env:
diff --git a/functional_tests/testdata/expected_traces.yaml b/functional_tests/testdata/expected_traces.yaml
index 063e0bec1d..5d536ab0e7 100644
--- a/functional_tests/testdata/expected_traces.yaml
+++ b/functional_tests/testdata/expected_traces.yaml
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ resourceSpans:
             stringValue: 1.15.2
         - key: splunk.distro.version
           value:
-            stringValue: 2.5.1
+            stringValue: 2.6.0
         - key: splunk.zc.method
           value:
-            stringValue: splunk-otel-js:v2.5.1
+            stringValue: splunk-otel-js:v2.6.0
         - key: k8s.container.name
           value:
             stringValue: nodejs-test
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ resourceSpans:
     scopeSpans:
       - scope:
           name: '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http'
-          version: 0.44.0
+          version: 0.45.1
         spans:
           - attributes:
               - key: http.url
diff --git a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
index 084f18a047..7b5c364b8c 100644
--- a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+++ b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ operator:
         tag: v1.30.0
       nodejs:
         repository: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-js/splunk-otel-js
-        tag: v2.5.1
+        tag: v2.6.0
       go:
         repository: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/autoinstrumentation-go
         tag: v0.8.0-alpha