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 ### Overview
 
-This operator runs a Zookeeper 3.7.1 cluster, and uses Zookeeper dynamic reconfiguration to handle node membership.
+This operator runs a Zookeeper 3.7.2 cluster, and uses Zookeeper dynamic reconfiguration to handle node membership.
 
 The operator itself is built with the [Operator framework](https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk).