diff --git a/changelog/61335.fixed b/changelog/61335.added
similarity index 100%
rename from changelog/61335.fixed
rename to changelog/61335.added
diff --git a/salt/pillar/http_json.py b/salt/pillar/http_json.py
index b73fcf92a8c..78fdd505740 100644
--- a/salt/pillar/http_json.py
+++ b/salt/pillar/http_json.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Set the following Salt config to setup http json result as external pillar sourc
 You can pass additional parameters, they will be added to the http.query call
 :py:func:`utils.http.query function <salt.utils.http.query>`:
 
-.. versionchanged:: TBD
+.. versionchanged:: 3006
     If namespace is defined, the data will be added under the specified subkeys in the Pillar structure.
 
 If the with_grains parameter is set, grain keys wrapped in can be provided (wrapped
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ def ext_pillar(
     :param str username: username for auth
     :param str pasword: password for auth
     :param str namespace: (Optional) A pillar key to namespace the values under.
+        .. versionadded:: 3006
 
     :return: A dictionary of the pillar data to add.
     :rtype: dict
diff --git a/tests/pytests/unit/pillar/test_http_json_pillar.py b/tests/pytests/unit/pillar/test_http_json_pillar.py
index a32041d50e0..5040c2e7a14 100644
--- a/tests/pytests/unit/pillar/test_http_json_pillar.py
+++ b/tests/pytests/unit/pillar/test_http_json_pillar.py
@@ -39,3 +39,28 @@ def test_ext_pillar_can_take_http_query_kwargs(backend, httpserver):
 
     actual = http_json.ext_pillar("test-minion-id", {}, url, header_dict=header_dict)
     assert actual == response
+
+
+@pytest.mark.requires_network
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("backend", ["requests", "tornado", "urllib2"])
+def test_ext_pillar_namespace(backend, httpserver):
+    response = {
+        "dict": {
+            "backend": backend,
+            "pillar_type": "http_json",
+        },
+    }
+    header_dict = {"custom-backend-header": backend}
+    namespace = "test_namespace"
+
+    # If the headers in header_dict are not in the request, httpserver will return an empty dictionary, so we know it will fail
+    httpserver.expect_request(
+        "/http_json_pillar/{}".format(backend),
+        headers={"custom-backend-header": backend},
+    ).respond_with_data(salt.utils.json.dumps(response), content_type="text/plain")
+    url = httpserver.url_for("/http_json_pillar/{}".format(backend))
+
+    actual = http_json.ext_pillar(
+        "test-minion-id", {}, url, header_dict=header_dict, namespace=namespace
+    )
+    assert actual == {namespace: response}