diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ed705adf7a..8cdb2875fd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2372,7 +2372,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fluvio"
-version = "0.24.0"
+version = "0.25.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-channel 1.9.0",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6b5830b726..27ca32db56 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ k8-diff = { version = "0.1.2" }
 trybuild = { branch = "check_option", git = "https://github.com/infinyon/trybuild" }
 
 # Internal fluvio dependencies
-fluvio = { version = "0.24.0", path = "crates/fluvio" }
+fluvio = { version = "0.25.0", path = "crates/fluvio" }
 fluvio-auth = { path = "crates/fluvio-auth" }
 fluvio-channel = { path = "crates/fluvio-channel" }
 fluvio-cli-common = { path = "crates/fluvio-cli-common"}
diff --git a/crates/fluvio/Cargo.toml b/crates/fluvio/Cargo.toml
index fbc3bed577..0bb1bd4373 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fluvio/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "fluvio"
-version = "0.24.0"
+version = "0.25.0"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 authors = ["Fluvio Contributors <team@fluvio.io>"]
diff --git a/crates/fluvio/src/producer/error.rs b/crates/fluvio/src/producer/error.rs
index 4bedac61e2..fe23c82e89 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio/src/producer/error.rs
+++ b/crates/fluvio/src/producer/error.rs
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ use crate::producer::PartitionId;
 #[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug, Clone)]
 #[non_exhaustive]
 pub enum ProducerError {
-    #[error("the given record is larger than the max_request_size ({0} bytes)")]
-    RecordTooLarge(usize),
+    #[error("record size ({0} bytes), exceeded maximum request size ({0} bytes)")]
+    RecordTooLarge(usize, usize),
     #[error("failed to send record metadata: {0}")]
     SendRecordMetadata(#[from] async_channel::SendError<RecordMetadata>),
     #[error("failed to get record metadata")]
diff --git a/crates/fluvio/src/producer/memory_batch.rs b/crates/fluvio/src/producer/memory_batch.rs
index 286459a3f7..317974bddd 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio/src/producer/memory_batch.rs
+++ b/crates/fluvio/src/producer/memory_batch.rs
@@ -59,7 +59,10 @@ impl MemoryBatch {
         // Error if the record is too large
         if actual_batch_size > self.write_limit {
             self.is_full = true;
-            return Err(ProducerError::RecordTooLarge(actual_batch_size));
+            return Err(ProducerError::RecordTooLarge(
+                record_size,
+                actual_batch_size,
+            ));
         }
 
         // is full, but is first record, add to the batch and then we will send it directly
diff --git a/rfc/produce-message-size.md b/rfc/produce-message-size.md
index ed5cac2445..b114a26d21 100644
--- a/rfc/produce-message-size.md
+++ b/rfc/produce-message-size.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ fluvio produce large-data-topic --max-request-size 16384 --file large-data-file.
 Will be displayed the following error:
 
 ```bash
-the given record is larger than the max_request_size (16384 bytes).
+record size (xyz bytes), exceeded maximum request size (1048576 bytes)
 ```
 
 ### Compression
diff --git a/tests/cli/fluvio_smoke_tests/produce-error.bats b/tests/cli/fluvio_smoke_tests/produce-error.bats
index ad48b5130a..5fd5ba97d2 100644
--- a/tests/cli/fluvio_smoke_tests/produce-error.bats
+++ b/tests/cli/fluvio_smoke_tests/produce-error.bats
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ teardown_file() {
         skip "don't check output on stable version"
     fi
 
-    assert_output --partial "the given record is larger than the max_request_size"
+    assert_output --partial "exceeded maximum request size"
 }
 
 # This should fail due to wrong compression algorithm