diff --git a/hbase/hbase-bigtable/pom.xml b/hbase/hbase-bigtable/pom.xml
index c88ed364e..ba3bb1668 100644
--- a/hbase/hbase-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase/hbase-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
         <configuration>
           <artifactSet>
             <excludes>
-              <!-- exclude proxima and core dependencies -->
               <exclude>cz.o2.proxima:platform-core</exclude>
             </excludes>
           </artifactSet>
@@ -87,6 +86,12 @@
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigtable</groupId>
+      <artifactId>bigtable-client-core</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
       <artifactId>netty-tcnative-boringssl-static</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index da70fadb3..0a30ad9d2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
   <properties>
     <kafka.version>0.11.0.1</kafka.version>
-    <proto.version>3.0.2</proto.version>
+    <proto.version>3.5.0</proto.version>
     <grpc.version>1.7.0</grpc.version>
     <euphoria.version>0.7.0</euphoria.version>
     <license-maven-plugin.version>3.0</license-maven-plugin.version>