[VOL-5567] Upgrade protos and remove deprecated dependencies

Change-Id: I27bd979c5a3bfa10fad5aadecaed6aa34c4ddb74
Signed-off-by: bseeniva <balaji.seenivasan@radisys.com>
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 584a914..f7e5aa8 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.7.11
+3.7.12