From 1f079a84510975f26ca410f825280d5910428415 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:48:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore(main): release google-cloud-bigtable-v2 1.16.0

---
 .release-please-manifest.json                               | 2 +-
 google-cloud-bigtable-v2/CHANGELOG.md                       | 6 ++++++
 .../lib/google/cloud/bigtable/v2/version.rb                 | 2 +-
 librarian.yaml                                              | 1 +
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 114efc49936a..6aac3b3bc543 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
   "google-cloud-bigtable+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-bigtable-admin-v2": "1.19.0",
   "google-cloud-bigtable-admin-v2+FILLER": "0.0.0",
-  "google-cloud-bigtable-v2": "1.15.1",
+  "google-cloud-bigtable-v2": "1.16.0",
   "google-cloud-bigtable-v2+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-billing": "1.8.1",
   "google-cloud-billing+FILLER": "0.0.0",
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/CHANGELOG.md b/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/CHANGELOG.md
index 7d76da3bccb1..b5dc5ec889af 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 1.16.0 (2026-08-13)
+
+#### Features
+
+* add microsecond timestamp precision support ([#36203](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/36203)) 
+
 ### 1.15.1 (2026-08-05)
 
 #### Bug Fixes
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/lib/google/cloud/bigtable/v2/version.rb b/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/lib/google/cloud/bigtable/v2/version.rb
index e8e2add30ce9..5977d06b0036 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/lib/google/cloud/bigtable/v2/version.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/lib/google/cloud/bigtable/v2/version.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module Google
   module Cloud
     module Bigtable
       module V2
-        VERSION = "1.15.1"
+        VERSION = "1.16.0"
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/librarian.yaml b/librarian.yaml
index 51d0843f0c77..d94c4b014737 100644
--- a/librarian.yaml
+++ b/librarian.yaml
@@ -746,6 +746,7 @@ libraries:
       - lib/google/cloud/bigtable/v2/bigtable/helpers.rb
       - test/google/cloud/bigtable/v2/bigtable/helpers_test.rb
     skip_generate: true
+    version: 1.16.0
   - name: google-cloud-billing
     apis:
       - path: google/cloud/billing/v1

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:51:29 +0000
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---
 .../snippets/snippet_metadata_google.bigtable.v2.json           | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.bigtable.v2.json b/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.bigtable.v2.json
index 96e73e0794d8..648cb7177987 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.bigtable.v2.json
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-v2/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.bigtable.v2.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "client_library": {
     "name": "google-cloud-bigtable-v2",
-    "version": "1.15.1",
+    "version": "1.16.0",
     "language": "RUBY",
     "apis": [
       {