Update dependencies and go version

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
  * Added Consumer `SeekPartitions()` method to seek multiple partitions at
  once and deprecated `Seek()`.
+ * The minimum version of Go supported has been changed from 1.14 to 1.16 (#973).
 
 ## v2.0.2
 

README.md

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ for use with [Confluent Cloud](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/).
 Getting Started
 ===============
 
-Supports Go 1.14+ and librdkafka 2.0.2+.
+Supports Go 1.16+ and librdkafka 2.0.2+.
 
 Using Go Modules
 ----------------

examples/go.mod

@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
 module github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/examples/v2
 
-go 1.14
+go 1.16
 
 replace github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/v2 => ../
 
 require (
  github.com/actgardner/gogen-avro/v10 v10.2.1
  github.com/alecthomas/kingpin v2.2.6+incompatible
- github.com/alecthomas/template v0.0.0-20190718012654-fb15b899a751 // indirect
  github.com/alecthomas/units v0.0.0-20211218093645-b94a6e3cc137 // indirect
  github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/v2 v2.0.2
  github.com/gdamore/tcell v1.4.0
- github.com/jhump/protoreflect v1.12.0 // indirect
- google.golang.org/protobuf v1.28.0
+ google.golang.org/protobuf v1.30.0
 )