Bumping up protobuf version to match the version required for Apache Beam 2.24.0.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 334063724

* Update dependencies.py

* Update RELEASE.md

Co-authored-by: jiyongjung <jiyongjung@google.com>

Author: dhruvesh09

RELEASE.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 *   Depends on `absl-py>=0.9,<0.11`.
 *   Depends on `apache-beam[gcp]>=2.24,<3`.
 *   Depends on `ml-metadata>=0.24,<0.25`.
+*   Depends on `protobuf>=3.12.2,<4`.
 *   Depends on `tensorflow-data-validation>=0.24,<0.25`.
 *   Depends on `tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.24.2,<0.25`.
 *   Depends on `tensorflow-transform>=0.24,<0.25`.

tfx/dependencies.py

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def make_required_install_packages():
           # LINT.ThenChange(opensource_only/build/tfx.workspace.bzl)
           nightly='>=0.25.0.dev',
           git_master='@git+https://github.com/google/ml-metadata@master'),
-      'protobuf>=3.7,<4',
+      'protobuf>=3.12.2,<4',
       'pyarrow>=0.17,<0.18',
       'pyyaml>=3.12,<6',
       'six>=1.10,<2',