Merge branch 'master' into pre-post-processing-hotfix

Author: gwang111

pyproject.toml

@@ -33,19 +33,19 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
   "attrs>=23.1.0,<24",
   "boto3>=1.35.75,<2.0",
-  "cloudpickle==2.2.1",
+  "cloudpickle>=2.2.1",
   "docker",
   "fastapi",
   "google-pasta",
   "importlib-metadata>=1.4.0,<7.0",
   "jsonschema",
-  "numpy>=1.9.0,<2.0",
+  "numpy>=1.9.0,<3.0",
   "omegaconf>=2.2,<2.3",
   "packaging>=20.0",
   "pandas",
   "pathos",
   "platformdirs",
-  "protobuf>=3.12,<5.0",
+  "protobuf>=3.12,<6.0",
   "psutil",
   "PyYAML~=6.0",
   "requests",