diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 19a1a6d..9168928 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ backports.functools-lru-cache==1.5
 certifi==2020.4.5.2
 chardet==3.0.4
 configparser==5.0.0
-confluent-kafka==0.11.4
+confluent-kafka==1.6.1
 data-hacks==0.3.1
 docopt==0.6.2
 enum34==1.1.6