Update org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients to version 3.6.0 (#2060)

log4j-parent/pom.xml

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
     <junit.version>4.13.2</junit.version>
     <junit-jupiter.version>5.10.1</junit-jupiter.version>
     <junit-pioneer.version>1.9.1</junit-pioneer.version>
-    <kafka.version>3.4.0</kafka.version>
+    <kafka.version>3.6.0</kafka.version>
     <kubernetes-client.version>5.12.4</kubernetes-client.version>
     <lightcouch.version>0.2.0</lightcouch.version>
     <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>

src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_kafka_kafka_clients.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.2.xsd"
+       type="changed">
+  <issue id="2060" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2060"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients` to version `3.6.0`</description>
+</entry>

src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ This releases contains ...
 * Update `org.apache.commons:commons-compress` to version `1.25.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2045[2045])
 * Update `org.apache.commons:commons-lang3` to version `3.14.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2047[2047])
 * Update `org.apache.commons:commons-pool2` to version `2.12.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2057[2057])
+* Update `org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients` to version `3.6.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2060[2060])
 * Update `org.jctools:jctools-core` to version `4.0.2` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1984[1984])
 * Update `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot` to version `2.7.18` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1998[1998])