diff --git a/providers/flagd/pom.xml b/providers/flagd/pom.xml
index 30fe44532..b861f001f 100644
--- a/providers/flagd/pom.xml
+++ b/providers/flagd/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     <properties>
         <!-- exclusion expression for e2e tests -->
         <testExclusions>**/e2e/*.java</testExclusions>
-        <io.grpc.version>1.71.0</io.grpc.version>
+        <io.grpc.version>1.72.0</io.grpc.version>
         <!-- caution - updating this will break compatibility with older protobuf-java versions -->
         <protobuf-java.min.version>3.25.6</protobuf-java.min.version>
     </properties>