[VOL-5609]:removing gogo/protobuf and using google.golang.org/protobuf instead

Change-Id: Ib1ca08fce9b7a059f2f11f0b7e45ea2ea2638d6c
Signed-off-by: balaji.nagarajan <balaji.nagarajan@radisys.com>
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 6c053cd..14d8580 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.6.24
+4.6.25
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 5e0192b..49626c5 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 require (
 	github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v3 v3.1.1
-	github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.2
 	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware v1.4.0
 	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus v1.2.0
 	github.com/opencord/voltha-lib-go/v7 v7.8.4
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@
 	github.com/go-logr/logr v1.4.3 // indirect
 	github.com/go-logr/stdr v1.2.2 // indirect
 	github.com/go-redis/redis/v8 v8.11.5 // indirect
+	github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.2 // indirect
 	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 v5.2.2 // indirect
 	github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20210331224755-41bb18bfe9da // indirect
 	github.com/golang/protobuf v1.5.4 // indirect
diff --git a/internal/pkg/core/device_handler.go b/internal/pkg/core/device_handler.go
index b5ca83b..e506ce5 100755
--- a/internal/pkg/core/device_handler.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/core/device_handler.go
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto"
 	"github.com/opencord/voltha-lib-go/v7/pkg/db"
 	"github.com/opencord/voltha-lib-go/v7/pkg/db/kvstore"
+	"google.golang.org/protobuf/proto"
 
 	vgrpc "github.com/opencord/voltha-lib-go/v7/pkg/grpc"