diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f1fba4f..166bc5c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     # NOTE: Maintainers, please do not require google-cloud-core>=2.x.x
     # Until this issue is closed
     # https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/10566
-    "google-cloud-core >= 1.4.4, < 3.0dev",
+    "google-cloud-core >= 1.4.4, < 3.0.0",
 ]
 extras = {}