diff --git a/.bazelversion b/.bazelversion
index a8a188756826d..0ee843cc60466 100644
--- a/.bazelversion
+++ b/.bazelversion
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.1.2
+7.2.0
diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 4694837797677..b206f169464f7 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -1,24 +1,31 @@
 module(name = "selenium")
 
 bazel_dep(name = "apple_rules_lint", version = "0.3.2")
-bazel_dep(name = "aspect_bazel_lib", version = "2.7.6")
-bazel_dep(name = "aspect_rules_esbuild", version = "0.20.0")
+bazel_dep(name = "aspect_bazel_lib", version = "2.7.7")
+bazel_dep(name = "aspect_rules_esbuild", version = "0.20.1")
 bazel_dep(name = "aspect_rules_js", version = "1.42.3")
-bazel_dep(name = "aspect_rules_ts", version = "2.1.0")
-bazel_dep(name = "bazel_features", version = "1.12.0")
-bazel_dep(name = "bazel_skylib", version = "1.5.0")
+bazel_dep(name = "aspect_rules_ts", version = "2.4.2")
+bazel_dep(name = "bazel_features", version = "1.13.0")
+bazel_dep(name = "bazel_skylib", version = "1.7.1")
 bazel_dep(name = "buildifier_prebuilt", version = "6.4.0")
 bazel_dep(name = "contrib_rules_jvm", version = "0.27.0")
 bazel_dep(name = "platforms", version = "0.0.10")
+
+# Required for the closure rules
+bazel_dep(name = "protobuf", version = "21.7", dev_dependency = True, repo_name = "com_google_protobuf")
+
+# Required for rules_rust to import the crates properly
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_cc", version = "0.0.9", dev_dependency = True)
+
 bazel_dep(name = "rules_dotnet", version = "0.15.1")
-bazel_dep(name = "rules_java", version = "7.4.0")
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_java", version = "7.6.3")
 bazel_dep(name = "rules_jvm_external", version = "6.1")
-bazel_dep(name = "rules_nodejs", version = "6.0.5")
-bazel_dep(name = "rules_oci", version = "1.0.0")
-bazel_dep(name = "rules_pkg", version = "0.9.1")
-bazel_dep(name = "rules_python", version = "0.31.0")
-bazel_dep(name = "rules_proto", version = "5.3.0-21.7")
-bazel_dep(name = "rules_ruby", version = "0.8.1")
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_nodejs", version = "6.2.0")
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_oci", version = "1.7.6")
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_pkg", version = "0.10.1")
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_python", version = "0.33.0")
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_proto", version = "6.0.0")
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_ruby", version = "0.11.0")
 
 linter = use_extension("@apple_rules_lint//lint:extensions.bzl", "linter")
 linter.configure(
diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 4cf1c70bc3f8f..32f2305a9727f 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -2,14 +2,6 @@ workspace(name = "selenium")
 
 load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
 
-# This gets us a pre-compiled `protoc`
-
-load("@rules_proto//proto:repositories.bzl", "rules_proto_dependencies", "rules_proto_toolchains")
-
-rules_proto_dependencies()
-
-rules_proto_toolchains()
-
 # rules_closure are not published to BCR.
 
 http_archive(