diff --git a/confluent-kafka.yaml b/confluent-kafka.yaml
index f16dbd097b3..df80af15062 100644
--- a/confluent-kafka.yaml
+++ b/confluent-kafka.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ package:
   # with the `version:` field.
   # 2. Created a new variable `mangled-package-version` to append `-ccs` to the
   # version.
-  version: "8.2.0.349"
+  version: "8.2.0.351"
   epoch: 0
   description: Community edition of Confluent Kafka.
   copyright:
@@ -46,15 +46,10 @@ var-transforms:
 pipeline:
   - uses: git-checkout
     with:
-      expected-commit: c87f2c11b72e10f53f892300604014e2a31f5fea
+      expected-commit: 80a5f0f23dd84cd14fab6b6695da03deaec39b5a
       repository: https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka
       tag: v${{vars.mangled-package-version}}
 
-  - uses: patch
-    with:
-      patches: |
-        GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v.patch
-
   - runs: |
       export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF8
 
diff --git a/confluent-kafka/GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v.patch b/confluent-kafka/GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 793c4ffcb72..00000000000
--- a/confluent-kafka/GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
-index 266db12355..85aa4946ea 100644
---- a/build.gradle
-+++ b/build.gradle
-@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ allprojects {
-     // that are unrelated to the project dependencies, we should not change them
-     if (name != "zinc") {
-       resolutionStrategy {
-+        force("org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:" + lang3Version)
-         force(
-           // be explicit about the javassist dependency version instead of relying on the transitive version
-           libs.javassist,
-diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
-index b8d806cc03..cc9d208322 100644
---- a/gradle.properties
-+++ b/gradle.properties
-@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ version=8.2.0-22-ccs
- scalaVersion=2.13.16
- # Adding swaggerVersion in gradle.properties to have a single version in place for swagger
- swaggerVersion=2.2.25
-+lang3Version=3.18.0
- task=build
- org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2g -Xss100m -XX\:+UseParallelGC
- org.gradle.parallel=true