diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3723f5a..04c1210 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ bitflags = "^1.2"
 # runtime optional deps
 actix-web = { version = "^3", default-features = false, optional = true }
 reqwest-lib = { version = "^0.11", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls"], optional = true, package = "reqwest" }
-rdkafka-lib = { version = "^0.25", features = ["cmake-build"], optional = true, package = "rdkafka" }
+rdkafka-lib = { version = "^0.28", features = ["cmake-build"], optional = true, package = "rdkafka" }
 warp-lib = { version = "^0.3", optional = true, package = "warp" }
 async-trait = { version = "^0.1.33", optional = true }
 bytes = { version = "^1.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/example-projects/rdkafka-example/Cargo.toml b/example-projects/rdkafka-example/Cargo.toml
index b67753d..05d6332 100644
--- a/example-projects/rdkafka-example/Cargo.toml
+++ b/example-projects/rdkafka-example/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ serde_json = "^1.0"
 futures = "^0.3"
 tokio = { version = "^1.0", features = ["full"] }
 clap = "2.33.1"
-rdkafka = { version = "^0.25", features = ["cmake-build"] }
+rdkafka = { version = "^0.28", features = ["cmake-build"] }