diff --git a/base_requirements.txt b/base_requirements.txt
index 9e1ba4c0d..7a132b386 100644
--- a/base_requirements.txt
+++ b/base_requirements.txt
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ django-storages
 
 # Abstraction models for rendering and paginating HTML tables
 # https://github.com/jieter/django-tables2/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
-# See #21902 for upgrading to django-tables2 v3.0+
-django-tables2<3.0
+# See #21902 for upgrading to django-tables2 v2.9+
+django-tables2<2.9
 
 # User-defined tags for objects
 # https://github.com/jazzband/django-taggit/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst