diff --git a/jbang/kafka-apicurio-schema-registry/kafka-producer/pom.xml b/jbang/kafka-apicurio-schema-registry/kafka-producer/pom.xml
index f66c8e4..073c9ca 100644
--- a/jbang/kafka-apicurio-schema-registry/kafka-producer/pom.xml
+++ b/jbang/kafka-apicurio-schema-registry/kafka-producer/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
       <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
-      <version>3.7.1</version>
+      <version>3.9.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>