diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 0a304db4..354aeb59 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -145,12 +145,7 @@ http_file(
 
 bazel_dep(
     name = "protobuf",
-    # Note: we use 27.2 in MODULE.bazel to avoid the warning:
-    #   The maven repository 'maven' is used in two different bazel modules, originally in 'rules_jvm_external' and now in 'protobuf'
-    # But we use 21.7 in WORKSPACE because protobuf 27.2 doesn't work with Bazel 5.x
-    # https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/a80daa2a2caaaac9ebe9ae6bb1b639c2771c5c55
-    # This should be ok because we only use the protobuf dep to pull in the google/protobuf/wrappers.proto for testing
-    version = "27.2",
+    version = "29.0-rc2",
     dev_dependency = True,
 )
 bazel_dep(