From 65c78f7fd9a090494f77c33fadfa3d5051340150 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Watkins <noahwatkins@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 10:44:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Bump kafka version to latest v3 release

Signed-off-by: Noah Watkins <noahwatkins@gmail.com>
---
 driver-kafka/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 driver-redpanda/pom.xml | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/driver-kafka/pom.xml b/driver-kafka/pom.xml
index 16c64883..738c1c56 100644
--- a/driver-kafka/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-kafka/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
 			<artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
-			<version>3.3.1</version>
+			<version>3.9.1</version>
 		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 
diff --git a/driver-redpanda/pom.xml b/driver-redpanda/pom.xml
index e9697c18..2e2a74e4 100644
--- a/driver-redpanda/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-redpanda/pom.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
 			<artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
-			<version>3.3.1</version>
+			<!-- Note that the kafka-client version here should match the version in driver-kafka/pom.xml -->
+			<version>3.9.1</version>
 		        <exclusions>
 		          <exclusion>
 		            <groupId>org.lz4</groupId>