From 5a92c59e42922ae86d00c873dea0dcf98ff70f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Anderson <ejona@google.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:46:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] README.md: Revert reference to protobuf 3.23.4

The README describes the released version of gRPC. But the most recent
release doesn't use protobuf 3.23.4. Telling people to use protoc 3.23.4
is asking for breakages because they will be running with protobuf-java
3.22.3, which is a downgrade.

The bump to 3.23.4 was incorrectly done in #10359.
---
 README.md | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 926c70bee32..32db59ac5d0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ For protobuf-based codegen integrated with the Maven build system, you can use
       <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>0.6.1</version>
       <configuration>
-        <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.23.4:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</protocArtifact>
+        <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.22.3:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</protocArtifact>
         <pluginId>grpc-java</pluginId>
         <pluginArtifact>io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:1.57.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</pluginArtifact>
       </configuration>
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ plugins {
 
 protobuf {
   protoc {
-    artifact = "com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.23.4"
+    artifact = "com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.22.3"
   }
   plugins {
     grpc {
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ plugins {
 
 protobuf {
   protoc {
-    artifact = "com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.23.4"
+    artifact = "com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.22.3"
   }
   plugins {
     grpc {