diff --git a/kafka.yaml b/kafka.yaml
index ecc4f68b719..3c960013e95 100644
--- a/kafka.yaml
+++ b/kafka.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package:
   name: kafka
   # When bumping check to see if the CVE mitigation can be removed.
-  version: 3.4.1
+  version: 3.5.0
   epoch: 0
   description:
   target-architecture:
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ pipeline:
     with:
       repository: https://github.com/apache/kafka
       tag: ${{package.version}}
-      expected-commit: 8a516edc2755df89982a9afe9e771ea7cf4a17ac
+      expected-commit: c97b88d5db4de28d9f51bb11fb71ddd6217c7dda
 
   - runs: |
-      export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+      export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF8
 
-      ./gradlew clean releaseTarGz
+      gradle clean releaseTarGz
 
       tar -xf core/build/distributions/kafka_2.13-${{package.version}}.tgz