diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0568091..e97171f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <properties>
         <hadoop.version>2.7.2</hadoop.version>
         <typesafe.config.version>1.2.1</typesafe.config.version>
-        <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
+        <protobuf.version>3.16.3</protobuf.version>
         <guava.version>19.0</guava.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.10</slf4j.version>
         <apache.commons.version>3.4</apache.commons.version>