diff --git a/.chloggen/update-java.yaml b/.chloggen/update-java.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..78403ef2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/update-java.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, 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 java to v2.12.0 in helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1631]
+# (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 88d5b9bd5..54014fe07 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
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ spec:
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
         value: splunk.zc.method=autoinstrumentation-go:v0.10.1-alpha
   java:
-    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-java/splunk-otel-java:v2.11.0
+    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-java/splunk-otel-java:v2.12.0
     env:
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
-        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-java:v2.11.0
+        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-java:v2.12.0
       # java auto-instrumentation uses http/proto by default, so data must be sent to 4318 instead of 4317.
       # See: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator#opentelemetry-auto-instrumentation-injection
       - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
diff --git a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
index 36a6cda74..13199713a 100644
--- a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+++ b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ instrumentation:
   #   - env: (Optional) Allows you to add any additional environment variables.
   java:
     repository: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-java/splunk-otel-java
-    tag: v2.11.0
+    tag: v2.12.0
     # env:
     #   - name: JAVA_ENV_VAR
     #     value: java_value