diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d5215de1f..a9c998814 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ Kafka has a mature Java client for producing and consuming events, but it has a
 In order to use this library, we need to add the following line in our `build.sbt` file:
 
 ```scala
-libraryDependencies += "dev.zio" %% "zio-kafka"         % "2.7.5"
-libraryDependencies += "dev.zio" %% "zio-kafka-testkit" % "2.7.5" % Test
+libraryDependencies += "dev.zio" %% "zio-kafka"         % "2.8.0"
+libraryDependencies += "dev.zio" %% "zio-kafka-testkit" % "2.8.0" % Test
 ```
 
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