Support protobuf 5

[hxyannay]

Hey.

Would be glad if the library could support protobuf>=5 as using it currently limits me from using other libraries who use newer versions of protobuf.

Thanks in advance.

[bsauty]

Hi! I would also be very interested if this condition could be relaxed!

[tetracionist]

The latest pre-release for dbt-core supports protobuf>=5.0, protobuf<6.0
End of support for protobuf 4.x is on 31st March 2025

It would be great to see this update reflected soon

[johnchuckcase]

Hi, this seems to be creating issues for the AWS MWAA workflows since the newer versions of airflow depend on protobuf 5:
requirements file:

apache-airflow==2.10.1 --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-2.10.1/constraints-3.11.txt"
sagemaker==2.235.2

pip install error:

    sagemaker 2.235.2 depends on protobuf<5.0 and >=3.12
    opentelemetry-proto 1.28.2 depends on protobuf<6.0 and >=5.0