diff --git a/bazel/external/rules_cc.patch b/bazel/external/rules_cc.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 057545c920f3e..0000000000000
--- a/bazel/external/rules_cc.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/cc/private/toolchain/unix_cc_toolchain_config.bzl b/cc/private/toolchain/unix_cc_toolchain_config.bzl
-index c3cf3ba..d207bbd 100644
---- a/cc/private/toolchain/unix_cc_toolchain_config.bzl
-+++ b/cc/private/toolchain/unix_cc_toolchain_config.bzl
-@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ def _impl(ctx):
-                 ],
-                 flag_groups = [
-                     flag_group(
--                        flags = ["-gsplit-dwarf"],
-+                        flags = ["-gsplit-dwarf", "-g"],
-                         expand_if_available = "per_object_debug_info_file",
-                     ),
-                 ],
diff --git a/bazel/repositories.bzl b/bazel/repositories.bzl
index c642f6e37590b..ce8283d3777ee 100644
--- a/bazel/repositories.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repositories.bzl
@@ -232,11 +232,7 @@ def envoy_dependencies(skip_targets = []):
         patch_args = ["-p1"],
         patches = ["@envoy//bazel/external:envoy_build_tools.patch"],
     )
-    external_http_archive(
-        "rules_cc",
-        patch_args = ["-p1"],
-        patches = ["@envoy//bazel/external:rules_cc.patch"],
-    )
+    external_http_archive("rules_cc")
     external_http_archive("rules_pkg")
 
     # Unconditional, since we use this only for compiler-agnostic fuzzing utils.
diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index a30f2b0b64219..c4f1c400cf4eb 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -667,12 +667,10 @@ REPOSITORY_LOCATIONS_SPEC = dict(
         project_name = "C++ rules for Bazel",
         project_desc = "Bazel rules for the C++ language",
         project_url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc",
-        # TODO(lizan): pin to a point releases when there's a released version.
-        version = "dd2758b96dc8f9f4add81eaa4154b7e3d8be6873",
-        sha256 = "67571de4070cff615f7232281d8b12d8400976d21c19d8274386ab02799269fb",
-        strip_prefix = "rules_cc-{version}",
-        urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/{version}.tar.gz"],
-        release_date = "2021-09-17",
+        version = "0.0.1",
+        sha256 = "4dccbfd22c0def164c8f47458bd50e0c7148f3d92002cdb459c2a96a68498241",
+        urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/releases/download/{version}/rules_cc-{version}.tar.gz"],
+        release_date = "2021-10-07",
         use_category = ["build"],
     ),
     rules_foreign_cc = dict(