diff --git a/aiven-kafka-poc/pom.xml b/aiven-kafka-poc/pom.xml
index 848ac25..d2db4a7 100644
--- a/aiven-kafka-poc/pom.xml
+++ b/aiven-kafka-poc/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <java.version>11</java.version>
-        <kafka.version>2.7.0</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>5.3.0-ccs</kafka.version>
         <confluent.version>6.1.0</confluent.version>
         <avro.version>1.9.1</avro.version>
     </properties>