diff --git a/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
index c8711fa0b02f..02a3e5407631 100644
--- a/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ arrow = "23.0.0"
 datafusion = { path = "../core", version = "12.0.0" }
 datafusion-common = { path = "../common", version = "12.0.0" }
 datafusion-expr = { path = "../expr", version = "12.0.0" }
-pbjson = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
+pbjson = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 pbjson-types = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 prost = "0.11.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0", optional = true }