diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b60bbae3d..58e59baff 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 	</scm>
 	<properties>
 		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
-		<spring-kafka.version>2.8.0-RC1</spring-kafka.version>
+		<spring-kafka.version>2.8.0</spring-kafka.version>
 		<spring-integration-kafka.version>5.5.5</spring-integration-kafka.version>
 		<kafka.version>3.0.0</kafka.version>
 		<spring-cloud-stream.version>3.2.0-SNAPSHOT</spring-cloud-stream.version>