Update the protobuf dependency?

[NeilGirdhar]

Could the protobuf dependency be incremented by two major versions please?

[chhabrakadabra]

To make a case for this ticket, many libraries are now requiring protobuf>4. Meaning that tensorflow-metadata is blocking codebases from upgrading all these other libraries.

[mattb-zip]

it looks like this is holding us back from upgrading to tensorflow 2.12.0 and using protobuf 4 for any use case that requires tensorflow-metadata, or tensorflow-datasets which requires tensorflow-metadata

[coreyhu]

any word on this?

[elgalu]

any updates?

[NeilGirdhar]

@rtg0795 Would you mind taking a look at this?

[masonkirchner]

Any updates on this?

EDIT: If you could publish any changes that loosen the Protobuf dependency as tensorflow-metadata==1.14.1 that would be appreciated. A 1.15.0 release with the loosened Protobuf dependency would be worthless without re-releasing all the Tensorflow libraries that depend on tensorflow-metadata because they're all scoped to tensorflow-metadata<1.15.0.

[rtg0795]

@NeilGirdhar Hi. I see that 'protobuf>=3.20.3,<4.21' has been used for 1.14.0. Can you please explain or provide more details on why this is not sufficient?

[NeilGirdhar]

@rtg0795 I'll let others comment more on this, but if I remember, this was preventing upgrades to Python 3.12. See also: #37 (comment) and #37 (comment)

[NeilGirdhar]

@rtg0795 What are your thoughts? It's been almost two years since this was requested.

[jeffpicard]

@rtg0795 protobuf>=3.20.3,<4.21 is not sufficient because 4.21 is the first released 4.x version.

This is blocking us as well.