diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/confluent-schema-registry/confluent-schema-registry-4.1/build.gradle b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/confluent-schema-registry/confluent-schema-registry-4.1/build.gradle
index 881373d419f..2d4a5765150 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/confluent-schema-registry/confluent-schema-registry-4.1/build.gradle
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/confluent-schema-registry/confluent-schema-registry-4.1/build.gradle
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ muzzle {
     versions = "[4.1.0,)"
     // broken POMs: depend on non-existent org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-bom:9.4.59
     // can be fixed after https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-connect-storage-common/issues/468 is resolved
-    skipVersions += ['7.4.14', '7.5.13', '7.6.10', '7.7.8', '7.8.7']
+    skipVersions += ['7.4.14', '7.5.13', '7.6.10', '7.7.8', '7.8.7', '7.9.6']
     excludeDependency "org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl" // missing on some releases
     assertInverse = true
   }
@@ -30,4 +30,3 @@ dependencies {
 
   latestDepTestImplementation group: 'io.confluent', name: 'kafka-avro-serializer', version: '+'
 }
-
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-connect-0.11/build.gradle b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-connect-0.11/build.gradle
index 2cb904b85ad..ea6a02a9457 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-connect-0.11/build.gradle
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-connect-0.11/build.gradle
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ muzzle {
       '7.7.8-ce',
       '7.7.8-ccs',
       '7.8.7-ce',
-      '7.8.7-ccs'
+      '7.8.7-ccs',
+      '7.9.6-ce',
+      '7.9.6-ccs'
     ]
     excludeDependency "io.confluent.cloud:*"
     excludeDependency "io.confluent.observability:*"