diff --git a/bom/application/pom.xml b/bom/application/pom.xml
index 7f043c8a9a00e..bbfd7c3cc83d5 100644
--- a/bom/application/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/application/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
         <opentracing-tracerresolver.version>0.1.8</opentracing-tracerresolver.version>
         <opentracing-concurrent.version>0.2.0</opentracing-concurrent.version>
         <opentracing-jdbc.version>0.0.12</opentracing-jdbc.version>
-        <opentracing-kafka.version>0.1.13</opentracing-kafka.version>
+        <opentracing-kafka.version>0.1.15</opentracing-kafka.version>
         <jaeger.version>0.34.3</jaeger.version>
         <quarkus-http.version>3.1.0.Beta2</quarkus-http.version>
         <jboss-servlet-api_4.0_spec.version>1.0.0.Final</jboss-servlet-api_4.0_spec.version>
diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/opentracing.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/opentracing.adoc
index b3a2f67c293b5..9ec9eabfc7d32 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/opentracing.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/opentracing.adoc
@@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ The https://github.com/opentracing-contrib/java-kafka-client[Kafka instrumentati
 <dependency>
     <groupId>io.opentracing.contrib</groupId>
     <artifactId>opentracing-kafka-client</artifactId>
-    <version>${opentracing-kafka.version}</version>
 </dependency>
 ----