diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 61b05b7296..d80b543a8b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@ typing-extensions>=3.10.0,<5
 # when installing google-cloud-storage which required >=3.20.1, <5 it was upgrading the protobuf version to the latest
 # version and because kfp 1.8.13 requires protobuf>=3.13, <4 it resulted incompatibility between kfp and protobuf
 # this can be removed once kfp will support protobuf > 4
-# blacklist protobuf 3.20.2, because it dropped protobuf/pyext/_message.py (accidentally?),
-# which breaks v3io-frames
-protobuf>=3.20.1, !=3.20.2, <4
+# since google-cloud blacklisted 3.20.0 and 3.20.1 we start from 3.20.2
+protobuf>=3.20.2, <4
 # 3.0/3.2 iguazio system uses 1.0.1, but we needed >=1.6.0 to be compatible with k8s>=12.0 to fix scurity issue
 # since the sdk is still mark as beta (and not stable) I'm limiting to only patch changes
 kfp~=1.8.0
@@ -34,7 +33,8 @@ numpy>=1.16.5, <1.23.0
 # limiting pandas to <1.5.0 since 1.5.0 causes exception in storey on casting from ns to us
 pandas~=1.2, <1.5.0
 # used as a the engine for parquet files by pandas
-pyarrow>=1,<7
+# >=3 to stay compatible with google-cloud
+pyarrow>=3,<7
 pyyaml~=5.1
 requests~=2.22
 sqlalchemy~=1.3
diff --git a/tests/test_requirements.py b/tests/test_requirements.py
index b23501d49b..3b11b25bee 100644
--- a/tests/test_requirements.py
+++ b/tests/test_requirements.py
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ def test_requirement_specifiers_convention():
         "alembic": {"~=1.4,<1.6.0"},
         "boto3": {"~=1.9, <1.17.107"},
         "dask-ml": {"~=1.4,<1.9.0"},
-        "pyarrow": {">=1,<7"},
+        "pyarrow": {">=3,<7"},
         "nbclassic": {">=0.2.8"},
-        "protobuf": {">=3.20.1, !=3.20.2, <4"},
+        "protobuf": {">=3.20.2, <4"},
         "pandas": {"~=1.2, <1.5.0"},
         "importlib_metadata": {">=3.6"},
     }