diff --git a/.requirements b/.requirements
index bdbf411854fa..d38f697623de 100644
--- a/.requirements
+++ b/.requirements
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ LIBEXPAT=2.5.0
 
 LUA_KONG_NGINX_MODULE=4fbc3ddc7dcbc706ed286b95344f3cb6da17e637 # 0.8.0
 LUA_RESTY_LMDB=19a6da0616db43baf8197dace59e64244430b3c4 # 1.4.1
-LUA_RESTY_EVENTS=8448a92cec36ac04ea522e78f6496ba03c9b1fd8 # 0.2.0
+LUA_RESTY_EVENTS=2dcd1d7a256c53103c0fdbe804f419174e0ea8ba # 0.3.0
 LUA_RESTY_WEBSOCKET=60eafc3d7153bceb16e6327074e0afc3d94b1316 # 0.4.0
 ATC_ROUTER=1abb9286947b70b4e302d8df953961c1280a0289 # 1.6.0
 
diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-resty-events.yml b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-resty-events.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8481612691d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-resty-events.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+message: "Bumped lua-resty-events to 0.3.0"
+type: dependency
+scope: Core
diff --git a/kong/global.lua b/kong/global.lua
index ace19ae87fbe..fc36ff63828e 100644
--- a/kong/global.lua
+++ b/kong/global.lua
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ function _GLOBAL.init_worker_events()
     listening = listening,  -- unix socket for broker listening
     max_queue_len = 1024 * 50,  -- max queue len for events buffering
     max_payload_len = max_payload_len,  -- max payload size in bytes
+    enable_privileged_agent = configuration and configuration.dedicated_config_processing
+                                            and configuration.role == "data_plane"
+                                             or false
   }
 
   worker_events = require "resty.events.compat"