diff --git a/general/prog/cmake.xml b/general/prog/cmake.xml
index 0ff21c24f4..e82fa5d11a 100644
--- a/general/prog/cmake.xml
+++ b/general/prog/cmake.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
   <!ENTITY cmake-download-http "https://cmake.org/files/v&cmake-major-version;/cmake-&cmake-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY cmake-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY cmake-md5sum        "d8c5c2a764229f61a4ed1e06498a6031">
-  <!ENTITY cmake-size          "10 MB">
+  <!ENTITY cmake-md5sum        "a28e9df8b4903c72f05122e8a088acc7">
+  <!ENTITY cmake-size          "11 MB">
   <!ENTITY cmake-buildsize     "424 MB (add 1.2 GB for tests)">
   <!ENTITY cmake-time          "2.2 SBU (add 3.9 SBU for tests, both using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
       <xref linkend="gcc"/> (for gfortran),
       <xref linkend="git"/> (for use during tests),
       <xref linkend="mercurial"/> (for use during tests),
+      <xref linkend="openjdk"/> (for use during tests),
       &qt5-deps; or <xref linkend="qt6" role="nodep"/> (for the Qt-based GUI),
       <xref linkend="sphinx"/> (for building documents),
       <xref linkend="subversion"/> (for testing),
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 6cf54838dc..e9b205646b 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>December 8th, 2023</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[rahul] - Update to cmake-3.28.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18979">#18979</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[rahul] - Update to libaom-3.8.0. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18981">#18981</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 0399f13a97..c814ecf623 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -313,8 +313,8 @@
 <!ENTITY autoconf213-version          "2.13">
 <!ENTITY cbindgen-version             "0.26.0">
 <!ENTITY clisp-version                "2.49">
-<!ENTITY cmake-major-version          "3.27">
-<!ENTITY cmake-minor-version          "9">
+<!ENTITY cmake-major-version          "3.28">
+<!ENTITY cmake-minor-version          "0">
 <!ENTITY cmake-version                "&cmake-major-version;.&cmake-minor-version;">
 <!ENTITY doxygen-version              "1.9.8">
 <!ENTITY gcc-version                  "13.2.0">