diff --git a/DESCRIPTION.md b/DESCRIPTION.md
index 145a1584b..8e3f7e790 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION.md
+++ b/DESCRIPTION.md
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Source code is also available at: https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-conne
     - Add `SNOWFLAKE_AUTH_SOCKET_MSG_DONTWAIT` flag (usage: `SNOWFLAKE_AUTH_SOCKET_MSG_DONTWAIT=true`) to make a non-blocking socket.recv call and retry on Error
       - Consider using this if running in a containerized environment and externalbrowser auth frequently hangs while waiting for callback
       - NOTE: this has not been tested extensively, but has been shown to improve the experience when using WSL
+  - Bumped platformdirs from >=2.6.0,<4.0.0 to >=2.6.0,<5.0.0
+  - Updated diagnostics to use system$allowlist instead of system$whitelist.
   - Updated diagnostics to use system$allowlist instead of system$whitelist.
   - Update `write_pandas` to skip TABLE IF NOT EXISTS in truncate mode
 
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 597f0b2b6..633a73ef4 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ install_requires =
     typing_extensions>=4.3,<5
     filelock>=3.5,<4
     sortedcontainers>=2.4.0
-    platformdirs>=2.6.0,<4.0.0
+    platformdirs>=2.6.0,<5.0.0
     tomlkit
 include_package_data = True
 package_dir =