Printing errors in connection to kafka

Change-Id: I573b2520bc52b0a3d45790abb5fb34c724fb9dd2
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 661e7ae..6148044 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.7.3
+1.7.4-dev