diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 66638ce..bf56672 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ hyper = { version = "1.5", features = ["full"] }
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"] }
 
 # Message Queue & Stream Processing
-rdkafka = { version = "0.36", features = ["tokio", "cmake-build"] }
+rdkafka = { version = "0.38", features = ["tokio", "cmake-build"] }
 lapin = "2.5"
 datafusion = "44.0"
 arrow = "54.0"