kafka release 2.6.1 (Azure#47324)

Co-authored-by: annie-mac <[email protected]>

Author: xinlian12

eng/versioning/version_client.txt

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ com.azure.cosmos.spark:azure-cosmos-spark_3-5_2-12;4.41.0;4.42.0-beta.1
 com.azure.cosmos.spark:fabric-cosmos-spark-auth_3;1.1.0;1.2.0-beta.1
 com.azure:azure-cosmos-tests;1.0.0-beta.1;1.0.0-beta.1
 com.azure:azure-data-appconfiguration;1.8.5;1.9.0-beta.1
-com.azure.cosmos.kafka:azure-cosmos-kafka-connect;2.6.0;2.7.0-beta.1
+com.azure.cosmos.kafka:azure-cosmos-kafka-connect;2.6.0;2.6.1
 com.azure:azure-data-appconfiguration-perf;1.0.0-beta.1;1.0.0-beta.1
 com.azure:azure-data-schemaregistry;1.5.9;1.6.0-beta.1
 com.azure:azure-data-schemaregistry-apacheavro;1.1.30;1.2.0-beta.3

sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos-kafka-connect/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
 ## Release History
 
-### 2.7.0-beta.1 (Unreleased)
-
-#### Features Added
-
-#### Breaking Changes
+### 2.6.1 (2025-11-18)
 
 #### Bugs Fixed
 * Fixed duplicate processing in `CosmosSourceConnector` when task rebalance(pause/resume) happens - See [PR 47308](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java/pull/47308)
 
-#### Other Changes
-
 ### 2.6.0 (2025-10-21)
 #### Other Changes
 * Updated `azure-cosmos` to version `4.75.0`.

sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos-kafka-connect/pom.xml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Licensed under the MIT License.
 
   <groupId>com.azure.cosmos.kafka</groupId>
   <artifactId>azure-cosmos-kafka-connect</artifactId>
-  <version>2.7.0-beta.1</version> <!-- {x-version-update;com.azure.cosmos.kafka:azure-cosmos-kafka-connect;current} -->
+  <version>2.6.1</version> <!-- {x-version-update;com.azure.cosmos.kafka:azure-cosmos-kafka-connect;current} -->
   <name>Apache Kafka Connect connector for Azure Cosmos DB</name>
   <description>This Package contains an Apache Kafka Connect source and sink connector for Azure Cosmos DB</description>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>