Merge v0.6.2 into v0.x.x (#243)

- **Clear release notes**
- **Pin grpc related dependencies**

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # Frequenz Common API Release Notes
 
-## Summary
-
 Update of the `PaginationParams` struct.
 
 ## Upgrading
@@ -13,3 +11,7 @@ Update of the `PaginationParams` struct.
   to represent HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) systems.
 
 - Additional information for energy metric
+
+## Bug Fixes
+
+- Fix a dependency issue by pinning the `grpcio` version and related libraries.

pyproject.toml

@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ requires = [
   "setuptools == 68.1.0",
   "setuptools_scm[toml] == 7.1.0",
   "frequenz-repo-config[api] == 0.9.2",
+  # We need to pin the protobuf, grpcio and  grpcio-tools dependencies to make
+  # sure the code is generated using the minimum supported versions, as older
+  # versions can't work with code that was generated with newer versions.
+  # https://protobuf.dev/support/cross-version-runtime-guarantee/#backwards
+  "protobuf == 4.25.3",
+  "grpcio-tools == 1.51.1",
+  "grpcio == 1.51.1",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
@@ -25,7 +32,15 @@ classifiers = [
   "Typing :: Typed",
 ]
 requires-python = ">= 3.11, < 4"
-dependencies = ["grpcio >= 1.51.1, < 2", "protobuf >= 4.25.3, < 6"]
+dependencies = [
+  # We can't widen beyond 6 because of protobuf cross-version runtime guarantees
+  # https://protobuf.dev/support/cross-version-runtime-guarantee/#major
+  "protobuf >= 4.25.3, < 6", # Do not widen beyond 6!
+  # We couldn't find any document with a spec about the cross-version runtime
+  # guarantee for grpcio, so unless we find one in the future, we'll assume
+  # major version jumps are not compatible
+  "grpcio >= 1.51.1, < 2", # Do not widen beyond 2!
+]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
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