diff --git a/.chloggen/update-java.yaml b/.chloggen/update-java.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..49b73f054
--- /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 v1.32.5 in helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [24]
+# (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 f2c496842..a75fcbec5 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
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ 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:v1.32.0
+    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-java/splunk-otel-java:v1.32.5
     env:
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
-        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-java:v1.32.0
+        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-java:v1.32.5
   nginx:
     image: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/autoinstrumentation-apache-httpd:1.0.4
     env:
diff --git a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
index 1a6b8ba5e..c35379429 100644
--- a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+++ b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ operator:
       #   - env: (Optional) Allows you to add any additional environment variables.
       java:
         repository: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-java/splunk-otel-java
-        tag: v1.32.0
+        tag: v1.32.5
       nodejs:
         repository: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-js/splunk-otel-js
         tag: v2.8.0