From 2985e456685748d9c0f8c175c7e9a22ded76166d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: J Wyman <jwyman@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:38:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] maintenance: Update `grpcio` Dependencies (#8765)

Co-authored-by: Yingge He <157551214+yinggeh@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 194cae4073fc3a30617c084ddb28cc778f348c15)
---
 Dockerfile.QA  | 4 ++--
 Dockerfile.sdk | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Dockerfile.QA b/Dockerfile.QA
index caa5fb0e2c..739afd63ab 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.QA
+++ b/Dockerfile.QA
@@ -352,8 +352,8 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
 RUN rm -f /usr/bin/python && \
     ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
 
-RUN pip3 install --upgrade "numpy<2" pillow attrdict future "grpcio<1.68" requests gsutil \
-                           "awscli<=1.36.40" six "grpcio-channelz<1.68" prettytable virtualenv \
+RUN pip3 install --upgrade "numpy<2" pillow attrdict future "grpcio>=1.81.1" requests gsutil \
+                           "awscli<=1.36.40" six grpcio-channelz prettytable virtualenv \
                            check-jsonschema
 
 # go needed for example go client test.
diff --git a/Dockerfile.sdk b/Dockerfile.sdk
index 08ced562bb..b9ab988857 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.sdk
+++ b/Dockerfile.sdk
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
             software-properties-common \
             vim \
             wget && \
-    pip3 install --upgrade "grpcio-tools<1.68" cmake==4.0.3 auditwheel
+    pip3 install --upgrade grpcio-tools cmake==4.0.3 auditwheel
 
 ENV CMAKE_POLICY_MINIMUM_REQUIRED=3.5
 
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
             python3-wheel \
             vim \
             wget && \
-    pip3 install "grpcio<1.68" "grpcio-tools<1.68" && \
+    pip3 install "grpcio>=1.81.1" grpcio-tools && \
     apt-get clean && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/cache/apt/archives/*;