protobuf dep is < 5.0

[abaoai]

Description of the bug:

The 4.xx protobuf packages are outdated.

Actual vs expected behavior:

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Any other information you'd like to share?

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[Gunand3043]

@abaoai , Could you please provide more details about the issues you're facing?

Are there any particular features or functionalities that are not working as expected?

[abaoai]

I have downstream service built with grpc as well. The generated python code runs on the latest 5.27. It breaks when running on the latest protobuf(5.28). So I have to pick 5.27 in requirements.txt. That triggers a docker build error when both protobuf 5.27 and generative-ai-python lives in the same requirements.txt file.

[MarkDaoust]

I pushed a v0.8.0 release this morning: https://pypi.org/project/google-generativeai/#history

Installing that gets a >5.0.0 version of protobuf.

Fixed.