From 7d6d4cda2e0a559d0f86e9247081ab0445ec5594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gareth Knowles <1183264+garethknowles@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:27:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(deps): bump protobuf upper bound to <8.0.0

Support Protobuf 7.35.1+ to resolve compatibility issues with grpcio-tools >= 1.83.0.

Fixes #7132
---
 setup.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 08c5a4ced4..c2dc7d012e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
         "google-auth >= 2.47.0, <3.0.0",
         "certifi >= 2023.7.22",
         "proto-plus >= 1.22.3, <2.0.0",
-        "protobuf>=3.20.2,<7.0.0,!=4.21.0,!=4.21.1,!=4.21.2,!=4.21.3,!=4.21.4,!=4.21.5",
+        "protobuf>=3.20.2,<8.0.0,!=4.21.0,!=4.21.1,!=4.21.2,!=4.21.3,!=4.21.4,!=4.21.5",
         "packaging >= 14.3",
         "google-cloud-storage >= 1.32.0, < 4.0.0; python_version<'3.13'",
         "google-cloud-storage >= 3.10.0, < 4.0.0; python_version>='3.13'",