diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/IndexSnapshotsServiceIT.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/IndexSnapshotsServiceIT.java
index 4460bd2e0c302..9ae5f74623c77 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/IndexSnapshotsServiceIT.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/IndexSnapshotsServiceIT.java
@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ public void testGetShardSnapshotOnEmptyRepositoriesListThrowsAnError() {
         expectThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> getLatestSnapshotForShardFuture(Collections.emptyList(), "idx", 0, false));
     }
 
-    @UpdateForV9(owner = UpdateForV9.Owner.DISTRIBUTED_COORDINATION)
-    // below we were selecting an index version between current and 7.5.0, this has been updated to 8.0.0 now but that might need to change
     public void testGetShardSnapshotReturnsTheLatestSuccessfulSnapshot() throws Exception {
         final String repoName = "repo-name";
         final Path repoPath = randomRepoPath();
@@ -118,7 +116,7 @@ public void testGetShardSnapshotReturnsTheLatestSuccessfulSnapshot() throws Exce
 
         final boolean useBwCFormat = randomBoolean();
         if (useBwCFormat) {
-            final IndexVersion version = randomVersionBetween(random(), IndexVersions.MINIMUM_COMPATIBLE, IndexVersion.current());
+            final IndexVersion version = randomVersionBetween(random(), IndexVersions.V_7_5_0, IndexVersion.current());
             initWithSnapshotVersion(repoName, repoPath, version);
         }
 
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 a2bf70bf6e087..8c82f17c01451 100644
--- a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractSnapshotIntegTestCase.java
+++ b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractSnapshotIntegTestCase.java
@@ -367,14 +367,12 @@ 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)
+                IndexVersionUtils.randomVersionBetween(random(), IndexVersions.V_7_0_0, IndexVersions.V_8_9_0)
             );
         }
     }