diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9e9c716..899af65 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-			<version>2.0-beta8</version>
+			<version>2.0-beta9</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-			<version>2.0-beta8</version>
+			<version>2.0-beta9</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.ovh.ws</groupId>
diff --git a/skel_common/readme_changelog.txt b/skel_common/readme_changelog.txt
index 25e9daa..ab473d6 100644
--- a/skel_common/readme_changelog.txt
+++ b/skel_common/readme_changelog.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Changelog
 1.5:
 - Added 'no info... yet' message when mods/ scan is still in-progress
 - Fixed advanced find tags not honoring start= when greater than match count
+- Updated log4j2 to 2.0-beta9, fixing a hang when run with Java 1.7.0_25
 - Changed FTLDat to allow opening dats in read-only mode
 
 1.4: