WIP: try requiring api-core at a minimum of 2.11.0 to get fragment tests to pass

Author: vchudnov-g

gapic/templates/setup.py.j2

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "grpcio >= 1.75.1, < 2.0.0; python_version >= '3.14'",
     "proto-plus >= 1.22.3, <2.0.0",
     "proto-plus >= 1.25.0, <2.0.0; python_version >= '3.13'",
-    {# Explicitly exclude protobuf versions mentioned in https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#GCP-2022-019 #}
     "protobuf >= 4.25.8, <7.0.0",
     {% for package_tuple, package_info in pypi_packages.items() %}
     {# Quick check to make sure `package_info.package_name` is not the package being generated so we don't circularly include this package in its own constraints file. #}
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ dependencies = [
 extras = {
 {% if rest_async_io_enabled %}
     "async_rest": [
-        "google-api-core[grpc] >= 2.21.0, < 3.0.0",
+        "google-api-core[grpc] >= 2.11.0, < 3.0.0",
         "google-auth[aiohttp] >= 2.35.0, <3.0.0"
     ],
 {% endif %}

tests/integration/goldens/redis/setup.py

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 ]
 extras = {
     "async_rest": [
-        "google-api-core[grpc] >= 2.21.0, < 3.0.0",
+        "google-api-core[grpc] >= 2.11.0, < 3.0.0",
         "google-auth[aiohttp] >= 2.35.0, <3.0.0"
     ],
 }

tests/integration/goldens/redis_selective/setup.py

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 ]
 extras = {
     "async_rest": [
-        "google-api-core[grpc] >= 2.21.0, < 3.0.0",
+        "google-api-core[grpc] >= 2.11.0, < 3.0.0",
         "google-auth[aiohttp] >= 2.35.0, <3.0.0"
     ],
 }