diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 846df4fe0..f87cc0282 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2==0.45b0
 opentelemetry-sdk==1.24.0
 Pillow==10.3.0
 pilkit>=3.0 # dependency of django-imagekit, 2.0 is incompatible with Pillow>=10
-protobuf==3.20.*
 psycopg2==2.9.9
 pycryptodome==3.20.0
 pyotp==2.9.0