diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_0_0/5640-measurescore-popid-nullpointer-bug.yaml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_0_0/5640-measurescore-popid-nullpointer-bug.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7f7d5778332
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_0_0/5640-measurescore-popid-nullpointer-bug.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+type: fix
+issue: 5640
+jira: SMILE-7977
+title: "Clinical reasoning version bump to address reported 'null pointer' error that is encountered when running $evaluate-measure against a measure with an omitted measure.group.population.id"
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0564e9040db..13f2883147e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@
 		<ucum_version>1.0.8</ucum_version>
 
 		<!-- CQL Support -->
-		<clinical-reasoning.version>3.0.0-PRE14</clinical-reasoning.version>
+		<clinical-reasoning.version>3.0.0-PRE15</clinical-reasoning.version>
 
 		<!-- Site properties -->
 		<fontawesomeVersion>5.4.1</fontawesomeVersion>