diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-resty-ljsonschema.yml b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-resty-ljsonschema.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7371a3a73d0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-resty-ljsonschema.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+message: "Bumped lua-resty-ljsonschema to 1.2.0, adding support for `null` as a valid option in `enum` types and properly calculation of utf8 string length instead of byte count"
+type: dependency
diff --git a/kong-3.9.0-0.rockspec b/kong-3.9.0-0.rockspec
index b9c9d121764b..59645720c5d6 100644
--- a/kong-3.9.0-0.rockspec
+++ b/kong-3.9.0-0.rockspec
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ dependencies = {
   "lua-resty-session == 4.0.5",
   "lua-resty-timer-ng == 0.2.7",
   "lpeg == 1.1.0",
-  "lua-resty-ljsonschema == 1.1.6-2",
+  "lua-resty-ljsonschema == 1.2.0",
   "lua-resty-snappy == 1.0-1",
   "lua-resty-ada == 1.1.0",
 }