--- pyproject.toml.orig	2024-06-04 04:55:58 UTC
+++ pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 dependencies = [
     "fontTools >= 4.46.0",
-    "freetype-py < 2.4.0",  # see: https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/4143
+    "freetype-py",  # see: https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/4143
     "opentypespec",
     "opentype-sanitizer >= 9.1.0, == 9.*",
     "munkres",
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ googlefonts = [
     "fonttools[lxml,unicode]",
     # (see https://github.com/googlefonts/gflanguages/pull/7)
 
-    "protobuf >= 3.7.0, < 4",
+    "protobuf >= 3.7.0",
     # 3.7.0 fixed a bug on parsing some METADATA.pb files.
     # We cannot use v4 because our protobuf files have been compiled with v3.
     # (see https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/2200)