diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 44e7568cb8ee..180285a55622 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 ## New Features / Improvements
 
 * X feature added (Java/Python) ([#X](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/X)).
+* (Python) Added support for Protobuf 7.x ([#40580](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/40580)).
 
 ## Breaking Changes
 
diff --git a/sdks/python/setup.py b/sdks/python/setup.py
index ed39cd76ba75..d79df248c988 100644
--- a/sdks/python/setup.py
+++ b/sdks/python/setup.py
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ def get_portability_package_data():
           #
           # 3. Exclude protobuf 4 versions that leak memory, see:
           # https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/28246
-          'protobuf>=3.20.3,<7.0.0.dev0,!=4.0.*,!=4.21.*,!=4.22.0,!=4.23.*,!=4.24.*',  # pylint: disable=line-too-long
+          'protobuf>=3.20.3,<8.0.0.dev0,!=4.0.*,!=4.21.*,!=4.22.0,!=4.23.*,!=4.24.*',  # pylint: disable=line-too-long
           'python-dateutil>=2.8.0,<3',
           'pytz>=2018.3',
           'requests>=2.32.4,<3.0.0',