With future Bazel LTS versions, Bzlmod will become the default system for external dependencies management.
Please consider migrating all your external dependencies in WORKSPACE to MODULE.bazel
For more information, please check bazelbuild/bazel#18958
Related issue is #13618, but #13618 is more about providing a Bazel modules for users, this one is for tracking the migration of protobuf itself to use Bzlmod for managing both prod and dev external deps.
With future Bazel LTS versions, Bzlmod will become the default system for external dependencies management.
Please consider migrating all your external dependencies in WORKSPACE to MODULE.bazel
For more information, please check bazelbuild/bazel#18958
Related issue is #13618, but #13618 is more about providing a Bazel modules for users, this one is for tracking the migration of protobuf itself to use Bzlmod for managing both prod and dev external deps.