diff --git a/app-gradle-plugin/CHANGELOG.md b/app-gradle-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
index 4a112143b..25c7d7195 100644
--- a/app-gradle-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/app-gradle-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 # Change Log
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## 2.4.6-SNAPSHOT
+
+## 2.4.5
+### Changed
+* Update to appengine-plugins-core 0.9.9, for automatic Java 17 compatibility when running local devserver [appengine-plugins-core#894](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-plugins-core/pull/894).
+
 ## 2.4.4
 ### Changed
 * Update to appengine-plugins-core 0.9.8 which includes [a version upgrade for gson to 2.8.9](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-plugins-core/pull/889) and fix for [`StringIndexOutOfBoundsException`](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-plugins-core/pull/890/files). ([#418](../../pull/418))
diff --git a/app-gradle-plugin/build.gradle b/app-gradle-plugin/build.gradle
index 5893c3780..455d8bbfc 100644
--- a/app-gradle-plugin/build.gradle
+++ b/app-gradle-plugin/build.gradle
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ group = 'com.google.cloud.tools'
 dependencies {
   compile localGroovy()
   compile gradleApi()
-  compile 'com.google.cloud.tools:appengine-plugins-core:0.9.8'
+  compile 'com.google.cloud.tools:appengine-plugins-core:0.9.9'
 
   testCompile 'commons-io:commons-io:2.4'
   testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'