[release] kafka consumer (#22545)

* [Release] Bumped kafka_consumer version to 6.12.0

* [Release] Update metadata

Author: Kyle-Neale

.in-toto/tag.bd79a691.link

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 <!-- towncrier release notes start -->
 
+## 6.12.0 / 2026-02-04
+
+***Security***:
+
+* Bump protobuf version to 6.33.5 ([#22522](https://github.com/DataDog/integrations-core/pull/22522))
+
 ## 6.10.2 / 2026-01-06
 
 ***Fixed***:

kafka_consumer/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # All rights reserved
 # Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license (see LICENSE)
 
-__version__ = "6.10.2"
+__version__ = "6.12.0"

kafka_consumer/changelog.d/22522.security

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ datadog-jboss-wildfly==3.3.0
 datadog-journald==3.2.0
 datadog-juniper-srx-firewall==1.2.0
 datadog-kafka-actions==2.1.0
-datadog-kafka-consumer==6.10.2
+datadog-kafka-consumer==6.12.0
 datadog-kafka==4.3.0
 datadog-karpenter==3.2.0
 datadog-keda==2.2.0