diff --git a/schema-registry-samples/schema-registry-vanilla/schema-registry-vanilla-producer1/pom.xml b/schema-registry-samples/schema-registry-vanilla/schema-registry-vanilla-producer1/pom.xml
index 968e9c87..aa1bb155 100644
--- a/schema-registry-samples/schema-registry-vanilla/schema-registry-vanilla-producer1/pom.xml
+++ b/schema-registry-samples/schema-registry-vanilla/schema-registry-vanilla-producer1/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     </parent>
 
     <properties>
-        <avro.version>1.8.2</avro.version>
+        <avro.version>1.11.3</avro.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>