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@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ confluent-hub install target/components/packages/confluentinc-kafka-connect-data
 Here is an example of how to run the `kafka-connect-datagen` on a local Confluent Platform after it's been installed.  [Configuration](#configuration) details are provided below.
 
 ```bash
-confluent local start connect
-confluent local config datagen-pageviews -- -d config/connector_pageviews.config
-confluent local status connectors
-confluent local consume test1 --value-format avro --max-messages 5 --property print.key=true --property key.deserializer=org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer --from-beginning
+confluent local services connect start
+confluent local services connect connector load datagen-pageviews  -c config/connector_pageviews.config
+confluent local services connect connector status datagen-pageviews
+kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic pageviews --property print.key=true --max-messages 5 --from-beginning
 ```
 
 ## Install the connector from Confluent Hub into a [Kafka Connect](https://docs.confluent.io/current/connect/index.html) based Docker image
@@ -67,27 +67,27 @@ If you want to build a local copy of the Docker image with `kafka-connect-datage
 
 You can create a Docker image packaged with the locally built source by running (for example with the 5.5.0 version of Confluent Platform):
 ```bash
-make build-docker-from-local CP_VERSION=5.5.0
+make build-docker-from-local CP_VERSION=6.2.0
 ```
 
 This will build the connector from source and create a local image with an aggregate version number.  The aggregate version number is the kafka-connect-datagen connector version number and the Confluent Platform version number separated with a `-`.   The local kafka-connect-datagen version number is defined in the `pom.xml` file, and the Confluent Platform version defined in the [Makefile](Makfile).  An example of the aggregate version number might be: `0.4.0-6.1.0`.
 
 Alternatively, you can install the `kafka-connect-datagen` connector from [Confluent Hub](https://www.confluent.io/connector/kafka-connect-datagen/) into a Docker image by running:
 ```bash
-make build-docker-from-released CP_VERSION=5.5.0
+make build-docker-from-released CP_VERSION=6.2.0
 ```
 
 The [Makefile](Makefile) contains some default variables that affect the version numbers of both the installed `kafka-connect-datagen` as well as the base Confluent Platform version.  The variables are located near the top of the [Makefile](Makefile) with the following names and current default values:
 
 ```bash
-CP_VERSION ?= 6.1.0
+CP_VERSION ?= 6.2.0
 
-KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION ?= 0.4.0
+KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION ?= 0.5.0
 ```
 These values can be overriden with variable declarations before the `make` command.  For example:
 
 ```bash
-KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION=0.3.2 make build-docker-from-released
+KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION=0.5.0 make build-docker-from-released
 ```
 
 ### Run connector in Docker Compose
@@ -238,8 +238,8 @@ To release new versions of the Docker images to Dockerhub (https://hub.docker.co
 The [Makefile](Makefile) contains some default variables that affect the version numbers of both the installed `kafka-connect-datagen` as well as the base Confluent Platform version.  The variables are located near the top of the [Makefile](Makefile) with the following names and current default values:
 
 ```bash
-CP_VERSION ?= 6.1.0
-KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION ?= 0.4.0
+CP_VERSION ?= 6.2.0
+KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION ?= 0.5.0
 OPERATOR_VERSION ?= 0 # Operator is a 'rev' version appended at the end of the CP version, like so: 5.5.0.0
 ```
 
@@ -250,11 +250,11 @@ make push-from-released
 
 and to override the CP Version of the `kafka-connect-datagen` version you can run something similar to:
 ```bash
-CP_VERSION=5.5.0 KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION=0.1.4 make publish-cp-kafka-connect-confluenthub
+CP_VERSION=6.2.0 KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION=0.1.4 make publish-cp-kafka-connect-confluenthub
 ```
 
 to override the CP Version and the Operator version, which may happen if Operator releases a patch version, you could run something similar to:
 ```bash
-CP_VERSION=5.5.0 OPERATOR_VERSION=1 KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION=0.1.4 make push-cp-server-connect-operator-from-released
+CP_VERSION=6.2.0 OPERATOR_VERSION=1 KAFKA_CONNECT_DATAGEN_VERSION=0.1.4 make push-cp-server-connect-operator-from-released
 ```
-which would result in a docker image tagged as: `cp-server-connect-operator-datagen:0.1.4-5.5.0.1` and pushed to DockerHub
+which would result in a docker image tagged as: `cp-server-connect-operator-datagen:0.1.4-6.2.0.1` and pushed to DockerHub