diff --git a/pubsublite-kafka-shim/pom.xml b/pubsublite-kafka-shim/pom.xml
index 8bfd98c33..35aa9b4fb 100644
--- a/pubsublite-kafka-shim/pom.xml
+++ b/pubsublite-kafka-shim/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
       <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
-      <version>2.5.0</version>
+      <version>2.6.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>