diff --git a/sdks/python/setup.py b/sdks/python/setup.py
index 96afb23c5481..fed619e69934 100644
--- a/sdks/python/setup.py
+++ b/sdks/python/setup.py
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ def get_portability_package_data():
             'requests_mock>=1.7,<2.0',
             'tenacity>=5.0.2,<6.0',
             'pytest>=4.4.0,<5.0',
-            'pytest-xdist>=1.29.0,<2',
+            'pytest-xdist>=1.29.0,<4',
             'pytest-timeout>=1.3.3,<2',
             'scikit-learn>=0.20.0',
             'sqlalchemy>=1.3,<2.0',