diff --git a/orion-server/pom.xml b/orion-server/pom.xml
index b9560bdc..5141e93d 100644
--- a/orion-server/pom.xml
+++ b/orion-server/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<dropwizard.version>1.3.17</dropwizard.version>
 		<curator-framework.version>4.0.1</curator-framework.version>
-		<kafka.version>2.5.0</kafka.version>
+		<kafka.version>3.3.0</kafka.version>
 		<hbase.version>1.2.1</hbase.version>
 	</properties>
 	<dependencies>