Add back the com.google.protobuf dependency

Author: thomasm-ttd

pom.xml

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
                 <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
-                <version>26.26.0</version>
+                <version>26.50.0</version>
                 <type>pom</type>
                 <scope>import</scope>
             </dependency>
@@ -191,7 +191,11 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
             <artifactId>google-cloud-logging</artifactId>
-            <version>3.20.6</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
+            <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
+            <version>3.25.5</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.azure</groupId>