diff --git a/apps/kafka-streams-stateless/pom.xml b/apps/kafka-streams-stateless/pom.xml
index 15ace55..d22be16 100644
--- a/apps/kafka-streams-stateless/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/kafka-streams-stateless/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
-        <kafka.version>2.8.0</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>3.6.1</kafka.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>