diff --git a/use-cases/model-fine-tuning-pipeline/data-preparation/gemma-it/src/requirements.txt b/use-cases/model-fine-tuning-pipeline/data-preparation/gemma-it/src/requirements.txt
index 1b1f89041..2be463d2b 100644
--- a/use-cases/model-fine-tuning-pipeline/data-preparation/gemma-it/src/requirements.txt
+++ b/use-cases/model-fine-tuning-pipeline/data-preparation/gemma-it/src/requirements.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ jsonpickle==3.2.2
 numpy==1.26.4
 openai==1.57.3
 pandas==2.2.2
-protobuf==4.24.4 ## lowered version
+protobuf==5.29.6 ## lowered version
 tenacity==9.0.0
 thejsonlogger==0.0.3