Updating the dependencies and build pipelines to support Arm64 macOS

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Description

Fixes #915

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Codecov Report

Merging #1267 (4fbd8c2) into dev (cd16cf0) will decrease coverage by 52.00%. The diff coverage is n/a.

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Consumption tests will fail for 3.9 and above as protobuf versions have changed in this PR and don't match the one in the image.