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From: "renovatebot-confluentinc[bot]"
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Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 21:27:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] WARNING: MAJOR (BREAKING) CHANGE: Update Kafka to v4

---
 pom.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 78a81326a..5445f3739 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 
         <!-- core -->
         <slf4j.version>2.0.13</slf4j.version>
-        <kafka.version>3.9.1</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>4.3.0</kafka.version>
         <version.unij>0.1.3</version.unij>
 
         <!-- tests -->