diff --git a/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/KafkaProcessor.java b/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/KafkaProcessor.java
index 98915dad0010b..03b2631b356e0 100644
--- a/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/KafkaProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/KafkaProcessor.java
@@ -344,6 +344,10 @@ private void handleAvro(BuildProducer<ReflectiveClassBuildItem> reflectiveClass,
                             "io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroDeserializer",
                             "io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroSerializer"));
 
+            reflectiveClass
+                    .produce(new ReflectiveClassBuildItem(true, false, false,
+                            "io.confluent.kafka.serializers.context.NullContextNameStrategy"));
+
             reflectiveClass
                     .produce(new ReflectiveClassBuildItem(true, true, false,
                             "io.confluent.kafka.serializers.subject.TopicNameStrategy",
diff --git a/integration-tests/kafka-avro-apicurio2/pom.xml b/integration-tests/kafka-avro-apicurio2/pom.xml
index 00e9d565b4f55..71c1f75a28631 100644
--- a/integration-tests/kafka-avro-apicurio2/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/kafka-avro-apicurio2/pom.xml
@@ -65,12 +65,16 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>
             <artifactId>kafka-avro-serializer</artifactId>
-            <version>6.1.1</version>
+            <version>7.0.0</version>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>jakarta.ws.rs</groupId>
                     <artifactId>jakarta.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>checker-qual</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <!-- Apicurio -->