--- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-02-04 21:28:15 UTC
+++ pyproject.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "defcon",
     "dehinter >= 3.1.0",  # 3.1.0 added dehinter.font.hint function
     "fontTools[ufo] >= 4.47.0",  # varLib.interpolatableHelpers.InterpolatableProblem
-    "freetype-py < 2.4.0",  # see: https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/4143
+    "freetype-py",  # see: https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery/issues/4143
     "Jinja2 >= 3.0.0",  # issue #4717
     "munkres",
     "opentypespec",
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ 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)