diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 9bb357f5..bb608042 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [submodule "third_party/pybind11"]
 	path = third_party/pybind11
 	url = https://github.com/pybind/pybind11.git
+	branch = v2.10.5
diff --git a/third_party/pybind11 b/third_party/pybind11
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..0e2c3e5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/pybind11
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0e2c3e5db41b6b2af4038734c84ab855ccaaa5f0