From 9cb63eb7af553851ab227095ecc4c0e78f4d7970 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xylar Asay-Davis <xylarstorm@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 04:12:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Relax upperbound on ESMF

We don't have reason at this point to expect incopatibilities
in future 8.x.x releases
---
 ci/recipe/meta.yaml | 2 +-
 dev-spec.txt        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ci/recipe/meta.yaml b/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
index 0f3807f19..d564f841e 100644
--- a/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ requirements:
     - cartopy_offlinedata
     - cmocean
     - dask
-    - esmf >=8.4.2,<8.7.0
+    - esmf >=8.4.2,<9.0.0
     - esmf=*=mpi_mpich_*
     - f90nml
     - geometric_features >=1.6.1
diff --git a/dev-spec.txt b/dev-spec.txt
index c6afaa365..8e6f362fe 100644
--- a/dev-spec.txt
+++ b/dev-spec.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ cartopy >=0.18.0
 cartopy_offlinedata
 cmocean
 dask
-esmf >=8.4.2,<8.7.0
+esmf >=8.4.2,<9.0.0
 esmf=*=mpi_mpich_*
 f90nml
 geometric_features>=1.6.1