diff --git a/build-constraints.yaml b/build-constraints.yaml
index 1a11c512..ddf23758 100644
--- a/build-constraints.yaml
+++ b/build-constraints.yaml
@@ -6756,7 +6756,8 @@ packages:
       - unicode-data < 0.3
 
       # https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage/issues/6388
-      - hw-kafka-client < 5.0.0
+      # issue is for 5.0, but 4.0.4 is deprecated.
+      - hw-kafka-client < 4.0.4
 
 # end of packages