Preparing release 2.3.5

Author: neerajr0

README.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ The recommended way to use this library is to consume it from maven central whil
   <dependency>
       <groupId>software.amazon.msk</groupId>
       <artifactId>aws-msk-iam-auth</artifactId>
-      <version>2.3.4</version>
+      <version>2.3.5</version>
   </dependency>
   ```
 If you want to use it with a pre-existing Kafka client, you could build the uber jar and place it in the Kafka client's
@@ -532,6 +532,10 @@ public static String UriEncode(CharSequence input, boolean encodeSlash) {
 
 ## Release Notes
 
+### Release 2.3.5
+- Upgrade AWS SDK version to address CVE-2025-58056 and CVE-2025-58057
+- Updated dependencies to address build issues. It's now recommended to build the package using Gradle 8.0+ and JDK 17.
+
 ### Release 2.3.4
 - Skip credential providers chain
 

src/main/resources/version.properties

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-#Updated on 2025-10-01T15:30:00Z
+#Updated on 2025-10-29T16:45:00Z
 platform=java
-version=2.3.4
+version=2.3.5