Release with forced kafka build

Change-Id: Id9f8cbc5cdf10f291be87cbfe49620b4f8c3dcb1
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index e79ae15..852bfb3 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.1.0-dev16
+4.1.0-dev17