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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #6515

What is changed and how it works?

Upgrade Sarama from v1.61.0 to v1.61.1 to fix message ordering during retries.

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Tests

• Manual test: retry-ordering reproducer passed 3 times with -race on v1.61.1.

Release note

bump sarama to v1.61.1

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• 2026-10-12 10:00:25.904656967 +0000 UTC m=+638835.651887816: ☑️ agreed by wk989898.
• 2026-10-12 10:41:47.020961273 +0000 UTC m=+641316.768192112: ☑️ agreed by asddongmen.

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In response to a cherrypick label: new pull request created to branch release-8.5: #6517.
But this PR has conflicts, please resolve them!

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In response to a cherrypick label: new pull request created to branch release-nextgen-202609: #6518.