diff --git a/ReleaseNotes.md b/ReleaseNotes.md
index 9b88e867..d7614021 100644
--- a/ReleaseNotes.md
+++ b/ReleaseNotes.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Eclipse Update Site:
 This is a minor release.
 
 ### New and noteworthy
+* Update to PMD 7.9.0
 * Support for Eclipse 2024-12 added
 * Support for Eclipse 2023-12 removed
 * The plugin now uses GPG signatures. Releases are signed with
diff --git a/net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.plugin/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.plugin/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index 97121391..a68a1690 100644
--- a/net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.plugin/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.plugin/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Bundle-ClassPath: .,
  target/lib/pmd-plsql.jar,
  target/lib/pmd-python.jar,
  target/lib/pmd-ruby.jar,
+ target/lib/pmd-rust.jar,
  target/lib/pmd-scala_2.13.jar,
  target/lib/pmd-swift.jar,
  target/lib/pmd-tsql.jar,
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index eb6e7c9e..8516c6df 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@
     <!-- https://github.com/eclipse/tycho/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md and https://github.com/eclipse-tycho/tycho/releases -->
     <tycho.version>4.0.10</tycho.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <pmd.version>7.8.0</pmd.version>
+    <pmd.version>7.9.0</pmd.version>
     <pmd.build-tools.version>28</pmd.build-tools.version>
     <checkstyle.version>10.18.1</checkstyle.version>
     <checkstyle.plugin.version>3.5.0</checkstyle.plugin.version>
     <pmd.plugin.version>3.25.0</pmd.plugin.version>
-    <pmd.check.version>7.8.0</pmd.check.version>
+    <pmd.check.version>7.9.0</pmd.check.version>
 
     <keystorePath>.ci/files/pmd-eclipse-plugin.p12</keystorePath>
     <keystore>${basedir}/${keystorePath}</keystore>