diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 277e63f6939..d620e9d09f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 * [Workflow]: Start the Galaxy Data Library timeout when an upload begins rather than when it is first queued up. See [PR 1337](https://github.com/phac-nml/irida/pull/1337)
 * [Developer]: Added description and metadata to create & update project sample endpoints. See [PR 1359](https://github.com/phac-nml/irida/pull/1359)
 * [UI]: Fix issue where year is displayed incorrectly when the last day of the week for the date is in another year. See [PR 1364](https://github.com/phac-nml/irida/pull/1364)
+* [Developer]: Fix issue where large downloads silent failed due to async request timeout. See [PR 1368](https://github.com/phac-nml/irida/pull/1368)
 
 ## [22.05.5] - 2022/06/28
 * [UI]: Fixed bug preventing export of project samples table due to invalid url. [PR 1331](https://github.com/phac-nml/irida/pull/1331)
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 788601d4593..3806a875d2a 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ spring.profiles.default=dev
 # Session timeout in seconds (1800 = 30 minutes)
 session.max.timeout=1800
 
+# Async request timeout in milliseconds (3600000 = 60 minutes)
+spring.mvc.async.request-timeout=3600000
+
 # Default hibernate settings
 spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL55Dialect
 spring.jpa.hibernate.naming.implicit-strategy=org.hibernate.boot.model.naming.ImplicitNamingStrategyJpaCompliantImpl