Kafka-log4j-appender 3.3.x hangs on Kafka 3.3.1 instance

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I am using kafka-log4j-appender 3.3.x against a Kafka 3.3.1 instance and it hangs whenever i use the logger.

This is the configuration I am using

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> eventcluster-kafka-bootstrap:9092 paymentevent ${bootstrap.servers}

Am I missing something?

I am using the following in maven to get the package

  <dependency>
  	<groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
  	<artifactId>kafka-log4j-appender</artifactId>
  	<exclusions>
  		<exclusion>
  			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
  			<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
  		</exclusion>
  	</exclusions>
  	<version>3.3.1</version>
  </dependency>

My topic is created using strimzi

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaTopic
metadata:
name: paymentevent
namespace: kafka
labels:
strimzi.io/cluster: eventcluster
spec:
partitions: 1
replicas: 1

However it works perfectly if I use 3.2.3 of the appender.

Any ideas?