diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-penlight.yml b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-penlight.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..edff3dea209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-penlight.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+message: "Bumped penlight to 1.14.0"
+type: dependency
+scope: Core
diff --git a/kong-3.7.0-0.rockspec b/kong-3.7.0-0.rockspec
index 0be10e5335f..7414bd0ae45 100644
--- a/kong-3.7.0-0.rockspec
+++ b/kong-3.7.0-0.rockspec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ dependencies = {
   "inspect == 3.1.3",
   "luasec == 1.3.2",
   "luasocket == 3.0-rc1",
-  "penlight == 1.13.1",
+  "penlight == 1.14.0",
   "lua-resty-http == 0.17.1",
   "lua-resty-jit-uuid == 0.0.7",
   "lua-ffi-zlib == 0.6",
diff --git a/spec/03-plugins/36-request-transformer/02-access_spec.lua b/spec/03-plugins/36-request-transformer/02-access_spec.lua
index 76687101d62..bf3de419282 100644
--- a/spec/03-plugins/36-request-transformer/02-access_spec.lua
+++ b/spec/03-plugins/36-request-transformer/02-access_spec.lua
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ describe("Plugin: request-transformer(access) [#" .. strategy .. "]", function()
       assert.response(r).has.status(500)
     end)
     it("rendering error (header) is correctly propagated in error.log, issue #25", function()
-      local pattern = [[error:%[string "TMP"%]:4: attempt to call global 'foo' %(a nil value%)]]
+      local pattern = [[error:%[string "TMP"%]:1: attempt to call global 'foo' %(a nil value%)]]
       local start_count = count_log_lines(pattern)
 
       local r = assert(client:send {