diff --git a/mapr/hatch.toml b/mapr/hatch.toml
index efa3452fe613c..a3db5e58504d2 100644
--- a/mapr/hatch.toml
+++ b/mapr/hatch.toml
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 
 [envs.default]
 dependencies = [
-  "confluent_kafka==1.7.0; python_version < '3.0'",
-  "confluent_kafka==2.5.0; python_version > '3.0'",
+  "confluent_kafka==2.8.0; python_version > '3.0'",
 ]
 
 [[envs.default.matrix]]
diff --git a/mapr/tests/conftest.py b/mapr/tests/conftest.py
index e36e711ea375c..9b7f37d82879d 100644
--- a/mapr/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/mapr/tests/conftest.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
         # customers are expected to install the package themselves.
         # We do that here for the e2e testing environment.
         'apt-get update',
-        'apt-get install -y gcc gnupg lsb-release',
+        'sh -c "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::=\\\"--force-confdef\\\" -o Dpkg::Options::=\\\"--force-confnew\\\" -y install gcc gnupg lsb-release ca-certificates libssl-dev"',  # noqa: E501
         # mapr-streams-python requires librdkafka headers as they're not shipped with the Agent
         # This requires adding confluent's APT repositories. These steps are based on the docs in
         # - https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/installing_cp/deb-ubuntu.html#get-the-software
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         'apt-get update',
         'apt-get install -y librdkafka-dev',
         # Finally, we can install the package
-        '/opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/pip install mapr-streams-python==0.11.0.2',
+        '/opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/pip install mapr-streams-python',
     ]
 }