diff --git a/docs/pages/release_notes.md b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
index a753816b29..349799523a 100644
--- a/docs/pages/release_notes.md
+++ b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Since this release, PMD will also expose any getter returning a collection of an
 /UserClass[@InterfaceNames = 'Queueable']
 ```
 
+#### Updated PMD Designer
+
+This PMD release ships a new version of the pmd-designer.
+For the changes, see [PMD Designer Changelog (7.2.0)](https://github.com/pmd/pmd-designer/releases/tag/7.2.0).
+
 ### 🐛 Fixed Issues
 * core
   * [#4467](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4467): \[core] Expose collections from getters as XPath sequence attributes
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e5b7e66827..dc9be10427 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 
         <pmd.build-tools.version>24</pmd.build-tools.version>
 
-        <pmd-designer.version>7.0.0</pmd-designer.version>
+        <pmd-designer.version>7.2.0-SNAPSHOT</pmd-designer.version>
         <javacc.jar>${settings.localRepository}/net/java/dev/javacc/javacc/${javacc.version}/javacc-${javacc.version}.jar</javacc.jar>
         <javacc.outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/javacc</javacc.outputDirectory>
         <javacc.ant.wrapper>${project.basedir}/../javacc-wrapper.xml</javacc.ant.wrapper>