Using spring boot 3.1.11

spring-kafka – 3.0.16

Trying to update kafka-clients from 3.4.1 to 3.5.1

According to the docs, the three should work together.

However i noticed that spring-kafka-test still brings the old client (3.4.1) which causes issues.

Tried to exclude or force later version on spring-kafka-test but is has side effects and doesn’t really work.

It should work according to the docs compatibility matrix, so why the older version?

[BTW – i don’t want to update spring-kafka to 3.1.x because it requires updating spring-boot as well]