diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 13582121ded..737ef60a9a6 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ Bug Fixes
   admin UI dashboard would not display any commandline arguments.
   (Webster Homer via Shawn Heisey)
 
+* SOLR-11608: Correctly parse the new core-name in the V2 core rename API.
+  (Jason Gerlowski via Anshum Gupta)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 * SOLR-11285: Refactor autoscaling framework to avoid direct references to Zookeeper and Solr
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/admin/TestCoreAdminApis.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/admin/TestCoreAdminApis.java
index dcaa64a9f5a..2919b1c8c78 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/admin/TestCoreAdminApis.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/admin/TestCoreAdminApis.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class TestCoreAdminApis extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
 
     TestCollectionAPIs.makeCall(apiBag, "/cores/core1", SolrRequest.METHOD.POST,
         "{rename:{to: core2}}", mockCC);
-    params = calls.get("swap");
+    params = calls.get("rename");
     assertEquals("core1" ,params[0]);
     assertEquals("core2" ,params[1]);
 
diff --git a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/request/CoreApiMapping.java b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/request/CoreApiMapping.java
index febd384a46f..b5ce92045cd 100644
--- a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/request/CoreApiMapping.java
+++ b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/request/CoreApiMapping.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public class CoreApiMapping {
     RELOAD(PER_CORE_COMMANDS, POST, CoreAdminAction.RELOAD, "reload", null),
     STATUS(CORES_STATUS, GET, CoreAdminAction.STATUS, "status", null),
     SWAP(PER_CORE_COMMANDS, POST, CoreAdminAction.SWAP, "swap", Utils.makeMap("other", "with")),
-    RENAME(PER_CORE_COMMANDS, POST, CoreAdminAction.RENAME, "rename", null),
+    RENAME(PER_CORE_COMMANDS, POST, CoreAdminAction.RENAME, "rename", Utils.makeMap("other", "to")),
     MERGEINDEXES(PER_CORE_COMMANDS, POST, CoreAdminAction.MERGEINDEXES, "merge-indexes", null),
     SPLIT(PER_CORE_COMMANDS, POST, CoreAdminAction.SPLIT, "split", Utils.makeMap("split.key", "splitKey")),
     PREPRECOVERY(PER_CORE_COMMANDS, POST, CoreAdminAction.PREPRECOVERY, "prep-recovery", null),