(VOL-4959) Introduce retry mechanism when read/write to KAFKA

Change-Id: Ie082afa8f2caff446e13751d4447fb793ab9cf76
Signed-off-by: Akash Reddy Kankanala <akash.kankanala@radisys.com>
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index fe10d56..910b97b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.5.18
+4.5.19