diff --git a/application/src/main/java/org/thingsboard/server/service/ruleengine/DefaultRuleEngineCallService.java b/application/src/main/java/org/thingsboard/server/service/ruleengine/DefaultRuleEngineCallService.java
index b669e3fb6d..c3fa87412e 100644
--- a/application/src/main/java/org/thingsboard/server/service/ruleengine/DefaultRuleEngineCallService.java
+++ b/application/src/main/java/org/thingsboard/server/service/ruleengine/DefaultRuleEngineCallService.java
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ public class DefaultRuleEngineCallService implements RuleEngineCallService {
         UUID requestId = new UUID(restApiCallResponseMsg.getRequestIdMSB(), restApiCallResponseMsg.getRequestIdLSB());
         Consumer<TbMsg> consumer = requests.remove(requestId);
         if (consumer != null) {
-            consumer.accept(TbMsg.fromProto(null, restApiCallResponseMsg.getResponseProto(), restApiCallResponseMsg.getResponse(), TbMsgCallback.EMPTY));
+            consumer.accept(TbMsg.fromProto(null, restApiCallResponseMsg.getResponseProto(), TbMsgCallback.EMPTY));
         } else {
             log.trace("[{}] Unknown or stale rest api call response received", requestId);
         }
diff --git a/common/message/src/main/java/org/thingsboard/server/common/msg/TbMsg.java b/common/message/src/main/java/org/thingsboard/server/common/msg/TbMsg.java
index 0830e12154..79059a9a56 100644
--- a/common/message/src/main/java/org/thingsboard/server/common/msg/TbMsg.java
+++ b/common/message/src/main/java/org/thingsboard/server/common/msg/TbMsg.java
@@ -204,18 +204,6 @@ public final class TbMsg implements Serializable {
         return builder.build();
     }
 
-    @Deprecated(forRemoval = true, since = "4.1") // to be removed in 4.2
-    public static TbMsg fromProto(String queueName, TbMsgProto proto, ByteString data, TbMsgCallback callback) {
-        try {
-            if (!data.isEmpty()) {
-                proto = TbMsgProto.parseFrom(data);
-            }
-        } catch (InvalidProtocolBufferException e) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Could not parse protobuf for TbMsg", e);
-        }
-        return fromProto(queueName, proto, callback);
-    }
-
     public static TbMsg fromProto(String queueName, TbMsgProto proto, TbMsgCallback callback) {
         TbMsgMetaData metaData = new TbMsgMetaData(proto.getMetaData().getDataMap());
         EntityId entityId = EntityIdFactory.getByTypeAndUuid(proto.getEntityType(), new UUID(proto.getEntityIdMSB(), proto.getEntityIdLSB()));
diff --git a/common/proto/src/main/proto/queue.proto b/common/proto/src/main/proto/queue.proto
index 29f4777c3e..7ad4d2883d 100644
--- a/common/proto/src/main/proto/queue.proto
+++ b/common/proto/src/main/proto/queue.proto
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ message SessionInfoProto {
 message RestApiCallResponseMsgProto {
   int64 requestIdMSB = 1;
   int64 requestIdLSB = 2;
-  bytes response = 5 [deprecated = true];
   msgqueue.TbMsgProto responseProto = 6;
 }