Pub sub connector not working with 2.8.1

[nsgeorgi]

Hi guys,
Is this project not supporting kafka 2.8.1 yet? Im getting the below error message when trying to run against kafka 2.8.1:

[2021-11-26 08:51:18,278] ERROR Stopping due to error (org.apache.kafka.connect.cli.ConnectDistributed:86)
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_SOCKET_CONNECTION_SETUP_TIMEOUT_MS
at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.distributed.DistributedConfig.(DistributedConfig.java:245)
at org.apache.kafka.connect.cli.ConnectDistributed.startConnect(ConnectDistributed.java:95)
at org.apache.kafka.connect.cli.ConnectDistributed.main(ConnectDistributed.java:80)

Any ideas?
Thanks