I was able to update protoc-gen-validate to use protobuf 0.11.0 and vex 0.9.0 here: https://github.com/fabriziosestito/protoc-gen-validate/pull/2/commits
I used this fork https://github.com/aktsk/protoc-gen-validate as a starting point since the fork author has already done some work on bug fixing and dependency bumping.
Unfortunately, I am unable to contact the fork author since the fork does not allow issues.
Is the project still accepting PRs? If yes how should I proceed to incorporate changes from the fork repo and mine?