diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index a2306bc3ce..4bc182ee05 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate TransitiveHull.INGORED in favor of TransitiveHull.getIgnored().</action>
       <!-- ADD --> 
       <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="nbauma109, Gary Gregory, Mark Roberts">Add accessors to model and unit tests, Javadoc #183.</action>
+      <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Add Const.MAJOR_22.</action>
+      <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Add Const.MINOR_22.</action>
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Bump tests from org.assertj:assertj-core 3.25.3 to 3.26.3 #322, #332.</action>
       <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Bump tests from org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib 1.9.23 to 2.0.0 #309, #318.</action> 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/bcel/Const.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/bcel/Const.java
index fd554493fd..80614c579c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/bcel/Const.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/bcel/Const.java
@@ -292,6 +292,14 @@ public final class Const {
      */
     public static final short MINOR_21 = 0;
 
+    /**
+     * Minor version number of class files for Java 22: {@value}.
+     *
+     * @see #MAJOR_22
+     * @since 6.10.0
+     */
+    public static final short MINOR_22 = 0;
+
     /**
      * Major version number of class files for Java 14: {@value}.
      *
@@ -356,6 +364,14 @@ public final class Const {
      */
     public static final short MAJOR_21 = 65;
 
+    /**
+     * Major version number of class files for Java 22: {@value}.
+     *
+     * @see #MINOR_22
+     * @since 6.10.0
+     */
+    public static final short MAJOR_22 = 66;
+
     /**
      * Default major version number. Class file is for Java 1.1: {@value}.
      *
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/bcel/ConstTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/bcel/ConstTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..feb6307ca5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/bcel/ConstTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.bcel;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Tests {@link Const}.
+ */
+public class ConstTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testJava22() throws Exception {
+        assertEquals(66, Const.MAJOR_22);
+        assertEquals(0, Const.MINOR_22);
+    }
+}