diff --git a/.github/workflows/solrj-test.yml b/.github/workflows/solrj-test.yml
index 4e66e4af85df..3fa5a8cd30ce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/solrj-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/solrj-test.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ on:
     paths:
       - '.github/workflows/solrj-test.yml'
       - 'solr/solrj/**'
+      - 'versions.props'
+      - 'versions.lock'
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests-via-crave.yml b/.github/workflows/tests-via-crave.yml
index 1623ed29f33d..30f354a5fefa 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests-via-crave.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests-via-crave.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ on:
     paths:
       - 'solr/**/src/**'
       - 'gradle/libs.versions.toml'
+      - 'versions.props'
+      - 'versions.lock'
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
diff --git a/solr/licenses/disruptor-3.4.4.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/disruptor-3.4.4.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index 65262f8a5dee..000000000000
--- a/solr/licenses/disruptor-3.4.4.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-588321627643b6de45db44c6575e750fea3ae3f5
diff --git a/solr/licenses/disruptor-4.0.0.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/disruptor-4.0.0.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5935553be265
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/licenses/disruptor-4.0.0.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9e77a6b0b1d3d0dac3e9f7f63535dad8ef217cbc
diff --git a/versions.lock b/versions.lock
index 1b983a22721d..6b9e061ac2e6 100644
--- a/versions.lock
+++ b/versions.lock
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ com.ibm.icu:icu4j:74.2 (1 constraints: ae0f2484)
 com.j256.simplemagic:simplemagic:1.17 (1 constraints: dd04f830)
 com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path:2.10.0 (2 constraints: bf12ce4a)
 com.knuddels:jtokkit:1.1.0 (1 constraints: 9d0e146a)
-com.lmax:disruptor:3.4.4 (1 constraints: 0d050a36)
+com.lmax:disruptor:4.0.0 (1 constraints: 0605ff35)
 com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:5.4.0 (11 constraints: a49b7f8e)
 com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-jvm:5.4.0 (2 constraints: 5d11c3e8)
 com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-sse:5.4.0 (2 constraints: 13189cad)
diff --git a/versions.props b/versions.props
index a8f45a8439a1..8b50c0274642 100644
--- a/versions.props
+++ b/versions.props
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ com.google.protobuf:*=4.35.1
 com.google.re2j:re2j=1.8
 com.j256.simplemagic:simplemagic=1.17
 com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path=2.10.0
-com.lmax:disruptor=3.4.4
+com.lmax:disruptor=4.0.0
 com.squareup.okhttp3:*=5.4.0
 com.tdunning:t-digest=3.3
 commons-cli:commons-cli=1.11.0