[Core][Protobuf] loose upper bound for protobuf (#29224)

This upper bound was introduced in #25211 but the root cause is supposed be fixed by #25648.

ci/env/install-core-prerelease-dependencies.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 set -e
 
 # install all unbounded dependencies in setup.py for ray core
-for dependency in attrs jsonschema aiosignal frozenlist requests grpcio
+for dependency in attrs jsonschema aiosignal frozenlist requests grpcio protobuf
 do
     python -m pip install -U --pre --upgrade-strategy=eager $dependency
 done

python/requirements.txt

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ numpy >= 1.16
 opencensus
 packaging; python_version >= '3.10'
 prometheus_client >= 0.7.1, < 0.14.0
-protobuf >= 3.15.3, != 3.19.5, < 4.0.0
+protobuf >= 3.15.3, != 3.19.5
 py-spy >= 0.2.0
 pydantic >= 1.8, < 1.10.0
 pyyaml

python/setup.py

@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ def get_packages(self):
         "numpy >= 1.16; python_version < '3.9'",
         "numpy >= 1.19.3; python_version >= '3.9'",
         "packaging; python_version >= '3.10'",
-        "protobuf >= 3.15.3, < 4.0.0",
+        "protobuf >= 3.15.3, != 3.19.5",
         "pyyaml",
         "aiosignal",
         "frozenlist",

release/requirements.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ toml
 python-dotenv
 expiringdict
 requests
-protobuf >= 3.15.3, != 3.19.5, < 4.0.0
+protobuf >= 3.15.3, != 3.19.5
 pytz
 retry
 git+https://github.com/ray-project/xgboost_ray.git#egg=xgboost_ray

release/requirements_buildkite.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ anyscale
 click
 boto3
 jinja2
-protobuf >= 3.15.3, != 3.19.5, < 4.0.0
+protobuf >= 3.15.3, != 3.19.5
 pydantic < 1.10.0
 pyyaml
 requests