diff --git a/cluster-api/pom.xml b/cluster-api/pom.xml
index 0698bafb3..d0e62295b 100644
--- a/cluster-api/pom.xml
+++ b/cluster-api/pom.xml
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
         <java.version>17</java.version>
         <!-- the list is sorted-->
         <apache.commons.lang.version>3.17.0</apache.commons.lang.version>
-        <kafka.version>3.7.1</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>3.8.0</kafka.version>
         <mockserver.version>5.15.0</mockserver.version>
-        <spring-kafka-test.version>3.2.4</spring-kafka-test.version>
+        <spring-kafka-test.version>3.3.0</spring-kafka-test.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/coral/types/api.d.ts b/coral/types/api.d.ts
index b6a7f0572..2fb71004d 100644
--- a/coral/types/api.d.ts
+++ b/coral/types/api.d.ts
@@ -2735,7 +2735,7 @@ export type components = {
             /** Format: int32 */
             topicpartitions: number;
             replicationfactor: string;
-            description: string;
+            description?: string;
             advancedTopicConfigEntries?: components["schemas"]["TopicConfigEntry"][];
             /** Format: int32 */
             teamId?: number;
@@ -2960,7 +2960,7 @@ export type components = {
             /** Format: int32 */
             topicpartitions: number;
             replicationfactor: string;
-            description: string;
+            description?: string;
             advancedTopicConfigEntries?: components["schemas"]["TopicConfigEntry"][];
             /** Format: int32 */
             teamId?: number;
diff --git a/openapi.yaml b/openapi.yaml
index f894d097f..519baf91b 100644
--- a/openapi.yaml
+++ b/openapi.yaml
@@ -6004,7 +6004,7 @@
             "type" : "string"
           }
         },
-        "required" : [ "description", "environment", "replicationfactor", "requestOperationType", "topicname", "topicpartitions" ]
+        "required" : [ "environment", "replicationfactor", "requestOperationType", "topicname", "topicpartitions" ]
       },
       "KwTenantModel" : {
         "properties" : {
@@ -6658,7 +6658,7 @@
             "type" : "string"
           }
         },
-        "required" : [ "description", "environment", "replicationfactor", "requestOperationType", "topicname", "topicpartitions" ]
+        "required" : [ "environment", "replicationfactor", "requestOperationType", "topicname", "topicpartitions" ]
       },
       "TopicDeleteRequestModel" : {
         "properties" : {
@@ -6713,6 +6713,8 @@
           },
           "description" : {
             "type" : "string",
+            "maxLength" : 100,
+            "minLength" : 1,
             "pattern" : "^[a-zA-Z 0-9_.,-]{3,}$"
           },
           "teamId" : {