diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2605b1c1d..1ce40e40c 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-SNAPSHOT</spring-kafka.version>
+		<spring-kafka.version>2.8.0-M3</spring-kafka.version>
 		<spring-integration-kafka.version>5.5.2</spring-integration-kafka.version>
 		<kafka.version>2.8.0</kafka.version>
 		<spring-cloud-schema-registry.version>1.2.0-SNAPSHOT</spring-cloud-schema-registry.version>