diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-protobuf.yml b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-protobuf.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d107cf997b7d..000000000000
--- a/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-protobuf.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-message: "Bumped lua-protobuf 0.5.2"
-type: dependency
diff --git a/kong-3.8.0-0.rockspec b/kong-3.8.0-0.rockspec
index 2785b6cf2d3b..eb138b14094a 100644
--- a/kong-3.8.0-0.rockspec
+++ b/kong-3.8.0-0.rockspec
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = {
   "lua_pack == 2.0.0",
   "binaryheap >= 0.4",
   "luaxxhash >= 1.0",
-  "lua-protobuf == 0.5.2",
+  "lua-protobuf == 0.5.1",
   "lua-resty-healthcheck == 3.1.0",
   "lua-messagepack == 0.5.4",
   "lua-resty-aws == 1.5.3",