diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 58ecdb2..106a931 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2300,9 +2300,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rdkafka-sys"
-version = "4.0.0+1.6.1"
+version = "4.6.0+2.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "54f24572851adfeb525fdc4a1d51185898e54fed4e8d8dba4fadb90c6b4f0422"
+checksum = "ad63c279fca41a27c231c450a2d2ad18288032e9cbb159ad16c9d96eba35aaaf"
 dependencies = [
  "cmake",
  "libc",
diff --git a/crates/kafka-sink/Cargo.toml b/crates/kafka-sink/Cargo.toml
index 2bcfca5..43158da 100644
--- a/crates/kafka-sink/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/kafka-sink/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tempfile = { version = "3.8", default-features = false, features = [] }
 
 # Features `ssl` or `ssl-vendored` must be enabled explicitely, otherwise it fails runtime with enabled ssl.
 # Before changing version make sure it compiles on *-unknown-linux-musl targets.
-rdkafka-sys = { version = "=4.0.0+1.6.1" }
+rdkafka-sys = { version = "=4.6.0+1.6.1" }
 rdkafka = { version ="0.27", features = ["libz-static", "tokio", "ssl-vendored"], default-features = false  }
 
 fluvio = { workspace = true }