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commit 1bc7e665002b6541d47ef2bf874ecc396eedd2fa
Author: Andrea Cosentino <an...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Mar 16 13:29:23 2026 +0100

    [maven-release-plugin] prepare release camel-kafka-connector-4.18.0
---
 .../camel-kafka-connector-extensible-apicurio-archetype/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-archetype/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 .../camel-kafka-connector-extensible-dataformat-archetype/pom.xml     | 2 +-
 archetypes/pom.xml                                                    | 2 +-
 buildingtools/pom.xml                                                 | 2 +-
 camel-kafka-connector-catalog/pom.xml                                 | 2 +-
 .../camel-aws-bedrock-agent-runtime-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml      | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-bedrock-text-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-cloudtrail-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-cloudwatch-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-comprehend-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-ddb-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-ddb-streams-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-ec2-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-eventbridge-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-kinesis-firehose-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-kinesis-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml             | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-kinesis-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-lambda-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml              | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-polly-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-redshift-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-redshift-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-s3-event-based-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-s3-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-s3-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-s3-streaming-upload-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-secrets-manager-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-ses-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-sns-fifo-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-sns-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-sqs-batch-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-sqs-fifo-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-sqs-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-sqs-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws-timestream-query-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws2-iam-kafka-connector/pom.xml                     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-aws2-kms-kafka-connector/pom.xml                     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-cosmosdb-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-cosmosdb-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-eventhubs-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-eventhubs-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-functions-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-servicebus-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-servicebus-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml      | 2 +-
 .../camel-azure-storage-blob-append-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml      | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-storage-blob-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml      | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-storage-blob-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-storage-datalake-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml  | 2 +-
 .../camel-azure-storage-datalake-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-storage-files-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-storage-files-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-storage-queue-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-azure-storage-queue-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-bitcoin-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-cassandra-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-cassandra-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml             | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ceph-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ceph-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-chuck-norris-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-couchbase-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-counter-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-cron-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-cxf-kafka-connector/pom.xml                          | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-cxfrs-kafka-connector/pom.xml                        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-databricks-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml              | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-databricks-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-dropbox-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-dropbox-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-earthquake-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-elasticsearch-index-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-elasticsearch-search-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-exec-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-fhir-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-fhir-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-file-kafka-connector/pom.xml                         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-file-watch-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ftp-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ftp-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ftps-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ftps-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-github-commit-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-github-event-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 .../camel-github-pullrequest-comment-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-github-pullrequest-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-github-tag-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-bigquery-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-calendar-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-functions-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-mail-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-pubsub-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-pubsub-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-sheets-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-sheets-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 .../camel-google-storage-event-based-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-storage-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-storage-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-google-vertexai-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-graphql-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-http-secured-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-http-secured-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-http-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-http-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-https-kafka-connector/pom.xml                        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ibm-cos-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ibm-cos-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ibm-watson-language-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-infinispan-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml              | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-infinispan-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-jdbc-kafka-connector/pom.xml                         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-jms-amqp-10-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml             | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-jms-amqp-10-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-jms-apache-artemis-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml      | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-jms-apache-artemis-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-jms-ibm-mq-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml              | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-jms-ibm-mq-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 .../camel-jms-pooled-apache-artemis-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml      | 2 +-
 .../camel-jms-pooled-apache-artemis-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 .../camel-kafka-azure-schema-registry-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 .../camel-kafka-azure-schema-registry-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml  | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-kafka-batch-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml           | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 .../pom.xml                                                           | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-kafka-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-kafka-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-kubernetes-namespaces-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-kubernetes-nodes-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml      | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-kubernetes-pods-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-log-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mail-imap-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml             | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mail-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mariadb-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mariadb-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-minio-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-minio-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 .../camel-mongodb-changes-stream-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mongodb-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mongodb-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mqtt-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mqtt-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mqtt5-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mqtt5-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mysql-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-mysql-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-nats-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-nats-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-netty-http-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-netty-kafka-connector/pom.xml                        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-opensearch-index-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-opensearch-search-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-oracle-database-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-oracle-database-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-postgresql-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml              | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-postgresql-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-pulsar-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-pulsar-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-redis-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-redis-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-rest-openapi-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 .../camel-salesforce-composite-upsert-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-salesforce-create-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-salesforce-delete-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-salesforce-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml            | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-salesforce-update-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-scp-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-sftp-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-sftp-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-sjms2-kafka-connector/pom.xml                        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-slack-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-slack-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-snowflake-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-snowflake-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml             | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-solr-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                    | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-solr-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-splunk-hec-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml              | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-splunk-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                  | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-splunk-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-spring-rabbitmq-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml         | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-spring-rabbitmq-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-sqlserver-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-sqlserver-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml             | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ssh-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                     | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-ssh-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-syslog-kafka-connector/pom.xml                       | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-telegram-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml                | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-telegram-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml              | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-timer-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                 | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-twitter-directmessage-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-twitter-search-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml        | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-twitter-timeline-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml      | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-webhook-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 connectors/camel-wttrin-source-kafka-connector/pom.xml                | 2 +-
 connectors/pom.xml                                                    | 2 +-
 core/pom.xml                                                          | 2 +-
 distribution/pom.xml                                                  | 2 +-
 parent/pom.xml                                                        | 4 ++--
 pom.xml                                                               | 4 ++--
 tests/itests-aws-v2/pom.xml                                           | 2 +-
 tests/itests-azure-storage-blob/pom.xml                               | 2 +-
 tests/itests-azure-storage-queue/pom.xml                              | 2 +-
 tests/itests-cassandra/pom.xml                                        | 2 +-
 tests/itests-common-http/pom.xml                                      | 2 +-
 tests/itests-common/pom.xml                                           | 2 +-
 tests/itests-couchbase/pom.xml                                        | 2 +-
 tests/itests-cxf/pom.xml                                              | 2 +-
 tests/itests-cxfrs/pom.xml                                            | 2 +-
 tests/itests-elasticsearch/pom.xml                                    | 2 +-
 tests/itests-file/pom.xml                                             | 2 +-
 tests/itests-google-pubsub/pom.xml                                    | 2 +-
 tests/itests-http/pom.xml                                             | 2 +-
 tests/itests-https/pom.xml                                            | 2 +-
 tests/itests-jdbc/pom.xml                                             | 2 +-
 tests/itests-mongodb/pom.xml                                          | 2 +-
 tests/itests-netty-http/pom.xml                                       | 2 +-
 tests/itests-netty/pom.xml                                            | 2 +-
 tests/itests-parent/pom.xml                                           | 2 +-
 tests/itests-salesforce/pom.xml                                       | 2 +-
 tests/itests-sjms2/pom.xml                                            | 2 +-
 tests/itests-slack/pom.xml                                            | 2 +-
 tests/itests-sql/pom.xml                                              | 2 +-
 tests/itests-ssh/pom.xml                                              | 2 +-
 tests/itests-syslog/pom.xml                                           | 2 +-
 tests/itests-timer/pom.xml                                            | 2 +-
 tests/pom.xml                                                         | 2 +-
 tooling/camel-kafka-connector-catalog-descriptor-maven-plugin/pom.xml | 2 +-
 tooling/camel-kafka-connector-docs-maven-plugin/pom.xml               | 2 +-
 tooling/camel-kafka-connector-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml          | 2 +-
 tooling/camel-kafka-connector-model/pom.xml                           | 2 +-
 tooling/pom.xml                                                       | 2 +-
 236 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 238 deletions(-)

diff --git a/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-apicurio-archetype/pom.xml b/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-apicurio-archetype/pom.xml
index bdbe477e5b..1a360ed589 100644
--- a/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-apicurio-archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-apicurio-archetype/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector</groupId>
         <artifactId>archetypes</artifactId>
-        <version>4.18.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.18.0</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector.archetypes</groupId>
diff --git a/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-archetype/pom.xml b/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-archetype/pom.xml
index ea1ac70dd5..4b871e0323 100644
--- a/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-archetype/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector</groupId>
         <artifactId>archetypes</artifactId>
-        <version>4.18.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.18.0</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector.archetypes</groupId>
diff --git a/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-dataformat-archetype/pom.xml b/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-dataformat-archetype/pom.xml
index 7f1e48838c..be6ee2ba7c 100644
--- a/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-dataformat-archetype/pom.xml
+++ b/archetypes/camel-kafka-connector-extensible-dataformat-archetype/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector</groupId>
         <artifactId>archetypes</artifactId>
-        <version>4.18.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.18.0</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector.archetypes</groupId>
diff --git a/archetypes/pom.xml b/archetypes/pom.xml
index 69f0033c1d..c9b728e5b2 100644
--- a/archetypes/pom.xml
+++ b/archetypes/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector</groupId>
         <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-        <version>4.18.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.18.0</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/buildingtools/pom.xml b/buildingtools/pom.xml
index 3770f460de..ec5dfc34aa 100644
--- a/buildingtools/pom.xml
+++ b/buildingtools/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector</groupId>
         <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-        <version>4.18.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.18.0</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/camel-kafka-connector-catalog/pom.xml b/camel-kafka-connector-catalog/pom.xml
index 17af65276e..9b8c2df717 100644
--- a/camel-kafka-connector-catalog/pom.xml
+++ b/camel-kafka-connector-catalog/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.camel.kafkaconnector</groupId>
         <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-        <version>4.18.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>4.18.0</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/connectors/camel-aws-bedrock-agent-runtime-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml b/connectors/camel-aws-bedrock-agent-runtime-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml
index acc9a02916..e5733b3523 100644
--- a/connectors/camel-aws-bedrock-agent-runtime-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml
+++ b/connectors/camel-aws-bedrock-agent-runtime-sink-kafka-connector/pom.xml
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