diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0f876042..b5b7c49b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
         <glue.schema.registry.groupId>software.amazon.glue</glue.schema.registry.groupId>
         <aws.sdk.v2.version>2.18.4</aws.sdk.v2.version>
         <aws.sdk.v1.version>1.12.151</aws.sdk.v1.version>
-        <kafka.scala.version>2.13</kafka.scala.version>
+        <kafka.scala.version>2.12</kafka.scala.version>
         <kafka.version>3.6.0</kafka.version>
         <avro.version>1.11.3</avro.version>
         <mbknor.jsonschema.converter.version>1.0.39</mbknor.jsonschema.converter.version>
diff --git a/serializer-deserializer/pom.xml b/serializer-deserializer/pom.xml
index 1eac92cc..32e5f709 100644
--- a/serializer-deserializer/pom.xml
+++ b/serializer-deserializer/pom.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.kjetland</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mbknor-jackson-jsonschema_${kafka.scala.version}</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>mbknor-jackson-jsonschema_2.12</artifactId>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>io.github.classgraph</groupId>