diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 912a3ade53..8fce0b0975 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymemcache` Update instrumentation to support pymemcache >4
   ([#1764](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1764))
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka` Add support for higher versions of confluent_kafka
-  ([#15](https://github.com/helios/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/15))
+  ([#1815](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1815))
 
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/docs-requirements.txt b/docs-requirements.txt
index 6d11d20198..d82807f732 100644
--- a/docs-requirements.txt
+++ b/docs-requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ boto~=2.0
 botocore~=1.0
 boto3~=1.0
 celery>=4.0
-confluent-kafka>= 1.8.2,< 2.0.0
+confluent-kafka>= 1.8.2,<= 2.1.1
 elasticsearch>=2.0,<9.0
 flask~=2.0
 falcon~=2.0
diff --git a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
index 232034e441..ee6b1d301e 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     },
     "confluent-kafka": {
         "library": "confluent-kafka >= 1.8.2, <= 2.1.1",
-        "instrumentation": "opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka==0.39b0.dev",
+        "instrumentation": "opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka==0.40b0.dev",
     },
     "django": {
         "library": "django >= 1.10",