I wanted to raise awareness of https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/5988 since it updates a lot of the Google dependency client versions and many of their transitive dependencies including protobuf, gRPC and Netty.
With the latest change to vendor protobuf/gRPC in many places and since all the validates runner tests have passed I believe this change will have minimal impact on our community and users. I'm planning to merge the PR on Friday unless issues are raised.
