From 18c7b8b94079175d9ba11d7a9301bbb0044f6b17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yi Hu <yathu@google.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:43:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Temporarily set Bigtable client version upper bound

---
 sdks/python/setup.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sdks/python/setup.py b/sdks/python/setup.py
index f5dbf28e2a09..97ba1d304926 100644
--- a/sdks/python/setup.py
+++ b/sdks/python/setup.py
@@ -534,7 +534,8 @@ def get_portability_package_data():
               'google-cloud-core>=2.0.0,<3',
               # 2.44.0 changed DirectRow mutation storage; native WriteToBigTable
               # requires this version on both driver and workers.
-              'google-cloud-bigtable>=2.44.0,<3',
+              # TODO: restore upper bound to "<3". Tests breaking in 2.48.0.
+              'google-cloud-bigtable>=2.44.0,<2.48.0',
               'google-cloud-build>=3.35.0,<4',
               'google-cloud-spanner>=3.0.0,<4',
               # GCP Packages required by ML functionality