Merge "Update to version 2.6.1 of parent pom"

diff --cc dependencies/pom.xml
index 1f20399,8eea86a..fa97927
--- 1/dependencies/pom.xml
--- 2/dependencies/pom.xml
+++ b/dependencies/pom.xml
@@@ -216,14 -216,8 +216,14 @@@
          <dependency>
              <groupId>com.google.errorprone</groupId>
              <artifactId>error_prone_annotations</artifactId>
-             <version>2.18.0</version>
+             <version>2.19.1</version>
          </dependency>
 +        <!-- Kafka Dependency -->
 +        <dependency>
 +            <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
 +            <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
 +            <version>3.0.0</version>
 +        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
  
      <build>