diff --git a/example-projects/rdkafka-example/Cargo.toml b/example-projects/rdkafka-example/Cargo.toml
index f15f3ac..802021f 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 = "^0.29", features = ["cmake-build"] }
+rdkafka = { version = "^0.36", features = ["cmake-build"] }