diff --git a/retail/inventory-postgres-kafka/pom.xml b/retail/inventory-postgres-kafka/pom.xml
index 0515216b..687b80db 100644
--- a/retail/inventory-postgres-kafka/pom.xml
+++ b/retail/inventory-postgres-kafka/pom.xml
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
-            <version>2.8.0</version>
+            <version>3.9.1</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>