From 03a87bf6250cf20f8ccf7466e7def8717ba61d83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matteo Merli <mmerli@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:20:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove version upper bound for protobuf dependency

---
 setup.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bef1107..76d929b 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def build_extension(self, ext):
 # functions dependencies
 extras_require["functions"] = sorted(
     {
-      "protobuf>=3.6.1,<=3.20.3",
+      "protobuf>=3.6.1",
       "grpcio>=1.59.3",
       "apache-bookkeeper-client>=4.16.1",
       "prometheus_client",