Please release 1.40.3 / protobuf updates

[andrbmgi]

The pypi version depends on protobuf 6.33.2 which has a known DoS vulnerability. It has been updated to 6.33.5 in this repo on Feb 3rd. Please release this fix 🙏

[antechrestos]

Hello @andrbmgi

I've juste released v1.40.3

Cheers