diff --git a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractSnapshotIntegTestCase.java b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractSnapshotIntegTestCase.java
index 8bc81fef2157d..7a72a7bd0daf0 100644
--- a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractSnapshotIntegTestCase.java
+++ b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractSnapshotIntegTestCase.java
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeUnit;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsExecutors;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.Nullable;
-import org.elasticsearch.core.UpdateForV9;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.plugins.Plugin;
@@ -366,15 +365,9 @@ protected static Settings.Builder indexSettingsNoReplicas(int shards) {
     /**
      * Randomly write an empty snapshot of an older version to an empty repository to simulate an older repository metadata format.
      */
-    @UpdateForV9(owner = UpdateForV9.Owner.DISTRIBUTED_COORDINATION)
-    // This used to pick an index version from 7.0.0 to 8.9.0. The minimum now is 8.0.0 but it's not clear what the upper range should be
     protected void maybeInitWithOldSnapshotVersion(String repoName, Path repoPath) throws Exception {
         if (randomBoolean() && randomBoolean()) {
-            initWithSnapshotVersion(
-                repoName,
-                repoPath,
-                IndexVersionUtils.randomVersionBetween(random(), IndexVersions.MINIMUM_COMPATIBLE, IndexVersions.V_8_9_0)
-            );
+            initWithSnapshotVersion(repoName, repoPath, IndexVersionUtils.randomVersion());
         }
     }