The protobuf bump in particular is to fix a C++ linking issue when building the Sonatype bundles:

: (Exit 1): gcc failed: error executing CppLink command (from target @@protobuf+//:protoc) /usr/bin/gcc @bazel-out/k8-opt-exec-ST-d57f47055a04/bin/external/protobuf+/protoc-0.params
collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'
compilation terminated.

Looks like the older version is causing something to use the 'gold' linker, which is being removed : https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00001.html.

https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/issues/4220

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