diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3cecc793..28bbbb91 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "aliasable"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "250f629c0161ad8107cf89319e990051fae62832fd343083bea452d93e2205fd"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "alloca"
 version = "0.4.0"
@@ -165,7 +171,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "bon",
  "digest 0.10.7",
  "log",
- "miniz_oxide",
+ "miniz_oxide 0.8.9",
  "num-bigint",
  "quad-rand",
  "rand 0.9.4",
@@ -179,6 +185,30 @@ dependencies = [
  "uuid",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "apache-avro"
+version = "0.22.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "312c1ea69e5fe9966e0029fb95aca8790100b85aff4f0d3b00a9337c74069a9c"
+dependencies = [
+ "bigdecimal",
+ "bon",
+ "digest 0.11.3",
+ "log",
+ "miniz_oxide 0.9.1",
+ "num-bigint",
+ "ouroboros",
+ "quad-rand",
+ "rand 0.10.1",
+ "regex-lite",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_bytes",
+ "serde_json",
+ "strum 0.28.0",
+ "thiserror",
+ "uuid",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "apache-avro-derive"
 version = "0.21.0"
@@ -719,7 +749,7 @@ version = "4.6.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f2ce8604710f6733aa641a2b3731eaa1e8b3d9973d5e3565da11800813f997a9"
 dependencies = [
- "heck",
+ "heck 0.5.0",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "syn",
@@ -1430,7 +1460,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "843fba2746e448b37e26a819579957415c8cef339bf08564fe8b7ddbd959573c"
 dependencies = [
  "crc32fast",
- "miniz_oxide",
+ "miniz_oxide 0.8.9",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1761,6 +1791,12 @@ version = "0.17.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ed5909b6e89a2db4456e54cd5f673791d7eca6732202bbf2a9cc504fe2f9b84a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "heck"
+version = "0.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "95505c38b4572b2d910cecb0281560f54b440a19336cbbcb27bf6ce6adc6f5a8"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "heck"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -2574,6 +2610,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "simd-adler32",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "miniz_oxide"
+version = "0.9.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b63fbc4a50860e98e7b2aa7804ded1db5cbc3aff9193adaff57a6931bf7c4b4c"
+dependencies = [
+ "adler2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "mio"
 version = "1.2.1"
@@ -2748,7 +2793,7 @@ name = "netcalyx-collector"
 version = "0.2.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "apache-avro",
+ "apache-avro 0.21.0",
  "async-channel",
  "bytes",
  "chrono",
@@ -3174,9 +3219,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "num-bigint"
-version = "0.4.6"
+version = "0.4.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a5e44f723f1133c9deac646763579fdb3ac745e418f2a7af9cd0c431da1f20b9"
+checksum = "c89e69e7e0f03bea5ef08013795c25018e101932225a656383bd384495ecc367"
 dependencies = [
  "num-integer",
  "num-traits",
@@ -3440,6 +3485,30 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ouroboros"
+version = "0.18.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1e0f050db9c44b97a94723127e6be766ac5c340c48f2c4bb3ffa11713744be59"
+dependencies = [
+ "aliasable",
+ "ouroboros_macro",
+ "static_assertions",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "ouroboros_macro"
+version = "0.18.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3c7028bdd3d43083f6d8d4d5187680d0d3560d54df4cc9d752005268b41e64d0"
+dependencies = [
+ "heck 0.4.1",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "proc-macro2-diagnostics",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "outref"
 version = "0.5.2"
@@ -3844,6 +3913,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "proc-macro2-diagnostics"
+version = "0.10.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "af066a9c399a26e020ada66a034357a868728e72cd426f3adcd35f80d88d88c8"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+ "version_check",
+ "yansi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "prost"
 version = "0.13.5"
@@ -3870,7 +3952,7 @@ version = "0.13.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "be769465445e8c1474e9c5dac2018218498557af32d9ed057325ec9a41ae81bf"
 dependencies = [
- "heck",
+ "heck 0.5.0",
  "itertools 0.14.0",
  "log",
  "multimap",
@@ -4673,7 +4755,7 @@ version = "0.4.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d50bd20f09e604f8eb2e0438e296822d541981338dc29472a1799c6162ba025e"
 dependencies = [
- "apache-avro",
+ "apache-avro 0.21.0",
  "async-recursion",
  "async-trait",
  "base64",
@@ -4707,11 +4789,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "schema_registry_converter"
-version = "4.10.0"
+version = "5.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "39e055305f8f1d7ae335613ef6bbe8596296706dc7c16953789468061c800ddf"
+checksum = "8b676292e1f89f166eae0de740a51c6f9718581cf97ee621781a31a93f490f3d"
 dependencies = [
- "apache-avro",
+ "apache-avro 0.22.0",
  "byteorder",
  "dashmap 6.2.1",
  "futures",
@@ -5233,6 +5315,12 @@ version = "1.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6ce2be8dc25455e1f91df71bfa12ad37d7af1092ae736f3a6cd0e37bc7810596"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "static_assertions"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a2eb9349b6444b326872e140eb1cf5e7c522154d69e7a0ffb0fb81c06b37543f"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
 version = "0.11.1"
@@ -5260,7 +5348,7 @@ version = "0.27.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7695ce3845ea4b33927c055a39dc438a45b059f7c1b3d91d38d10355fb8cbca7"
 dependencies = [
- "heck",
+ "heck 0.5.0",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "syn",
@@ -5272,7 +5360,7 @@ version = "0.28.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ab85eea0270ee17587ed4156089e10b9e6880ee688791d45a905f5b1ca36f664"
 dependencies = [
- "heck",
+ "heck 0.5.0",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "syn",
@@ -5952,9 +6040,9 @@ checksum = "06abde3611657adf66d383f00b093d7faecc7fa57071cce2578660c9f1010821"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "uuid"
-version = "1.23.2"
+version = "1.26.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d258b83ceec21034727ecee8c382cfa6c3e133699b0742c64571814fb420c9f7"
+checksum = "b5772d71c9be8a8a6ac2117d949c5b224c1b72241bb611d9a3012edcf8af7812"
 dependencies = [
  "getrandom 0.4.2",
  "js-sys",
@@ -6509,7 +6597,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ea61de684c3ea68cb082b7a88508a8b27fcc8b797d738bfc99a82facf1d752dc"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "heck",
+ "heck 0.5.0",
  "wit-parser",
 ]
 
@@ -6520,7 +6608,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b7c566e0f4b284dd6561c786d9cb0142da491f46a9fbed79ea69cdad5db17f21"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "heck",
+ "heck 0.5.0",
  "indexmap 2.14.0",
  "prettyplease",
  "syn",
@@ -6601,6 +6689,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "num-traits",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "yansi"
+version = "1.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cfe53a6657fd280eaa890a3bc59152892ffa3e30101319d168b781ed6529b049"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "yoke"
 version = "0.8.3"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8523612a..654b3a08 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ serde_with = { version = "3.20" }
 indexmap = { version = "2.14" }
 apache-avro = { version = "0.21" }
 # TODO: clean-up and consolidate towards schema-registry-client
-schema_registry_converter = { version = "4.9", default-features = false }
+schema_registry_converter = { version = "5.0", default-features = false }
 rdkafka = { version = "0.39", default-features = false }
 tracing-test = { version = "0.2" }
 syn = { version = "2.0", default-features = false }