diff --git a/boms/cloud-lts-bom/pom.xml b/boms/cloud-lts-bom/pom.xml
index d470d680c..e99541159 100644
--- a/boms/cloud-lts-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/boms/cloud-lts-bom/pom.xml
@@ -47,39 +47,38 @@
 
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-
     <!-- Layer 1: Core -->
     <guava.version>33.4.0-jre</guava.version>
     <autovalue.version>1.11.0</autovalue.version>
     <protobuf.version>3.25.7</protobuf.version>
-    <io.grpc.version>1.70.0</io.grpc.version>
+    <io.grpc.version>1.71.0</io.grpc.version>
     <google-http-client.version>1.46.3</google-http-client.version>
     <google-oauth-client.version>1.38.0</google-oauth-client.version>
     <google-auth-library.version>1.33.1</google-auth-library.version>
     <google-api-client.version>2.7.2</google-api-client.version>
     <!-- We don't use gax-bom because it includes the artifacts with 'testlib' classifier. -->
-    <gax.version>2.62.0</gax.version>
-    <api-common.version>2.45.0</api-common.version>
-    <google-cloud-core.version>2.52.0</google-cloud-core.version>
-    <proto-google-common-protos.version>2.53.0</proto-google-common-protos.version>
+    <gax.version>2.68.0</gax.version>
+    <api-common.version>2.51.0</api-common.version>
+    <google-cloud-core.version>2.58.0</google-cloud-core.version>
+    <proto-google-common-protos.version>2.59.0</proto-google-common-protos.version>
 
     <!-- Layer 2: Cloud -->
-    <google-cloud-container.version>2.62.0</google-cloud-container.version>
-    <google-cloud-kms.version>2.62.0</google-cloud-kms.version>
-    <google-cloud-monitoring.version>3.60.0</google-cloud-monitoring.version>
-    <google-cloud-orchestration-airflow.version>1.59.0</google-cloud-orchestration-airflow.version>
-    <google-cloud-redis.version>2.62.0</google-cloud-redis.version>
-    <google-cloud-resourcemanager.version>1.61.0</google-cloud-resourcemanager.version>
-    <google-cloud-service-usage.version>2.59.0</google-cloud-service-usage.version>
-    <google-cloud-tasks.version>2.59.0</google-cloud-tasks.version>
-    <google-cloud-trace.version>2.59.0</google-cloud-trace.version>
-    <google-cloud-translate.version>2.59.0</google-cloud-translate.version>
-    <google-cloud-vision.version>3.57.0</google-cloud-vision.version>
-    <google-iam-admin.version>3.54.0</google-iam-admin.version>
-    <google-cloud-iamcredentials.version>2.59.0</google-cloud-iamcredentials.version>
-    <google-cloud-secretmanager.version>2.59.0</google-cloud-secretmanager.version>
+    <google-cloud-container.version>2.70.0</google-cloud-container.version>
+    <google-cloud-kms.version>2.70.0</google-cloud-kms.version>
+    <google-cloud-monitoring.version>3.68.0</google-cloud-monitoring.version>
+    <google-cloud-orchestration-airflow.version>1.67.0</google-cloud-orchestration-airflow.version>
+    <google-cloud-redis.version>2.70.0</google-cloud-redis.version>
+    <google-cloud-resourcemanager.version>1.69.0</google-cloud-resourcemanager.version>
+    <google-cloud-service-usage.version>2.67.0</google-cloud-service-usage.version>
+    <google-cloud-tasks.version>2.67.0</google-cloud-tasks.version>
+    <google-cloud-trace.version>2.67.0</google-cloud-trace.version>
+    <google-cloud-translate.version>2.67.0</google-cloud-translate.version>
+    <google-cloud-vision.version>3.65.0</google-cloud-vision.version>
+    <google-iam-admin.version>3.62.0</google-iam-admin.version>
+    <google-cloud-iamcredentials.version>2.67.0</google-cloud-iamcredentials.version>
+    <google-cloud-secretmanager.version>2.67.0</google-cloud-secretmanager.version>
     <google-api-services-androidpublisher.version>v3-rev20250102-2.0.0</google-api-services-androidpublisher.version>
-    <appengine-api-1.0-sdk.version>2.0.31</appengine-api-1.0-sdk.version>
+    <appengine-api-1.0-sdk.version>2.0.34</appengine-api-1.0-sdk.version>
     <gcs-connector.version>2.2.26</gcs-connector.version>
     <google-cloud-bigquery.version>2.48.1</google-cloud-bigquery.version>
     <!-- the google-api-services-bigquery version used by the google-cloud-bigquery version above -->
diff --git a/boms/integration-tests/pom.xml b/boms/integration-tests/pom.xml
index d5a7cf22b..62fdd4792 100644
--- a/boms/integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/boms/integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
       <artifactId>dependencies</artifactId>
-      <version>1.5.14-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <version>1.5.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
diff --git a/dashboard/pom.xml b/dashboard/pom.xml
index 7b774ef0c..932ec0e4f 100644
--- a/dashboard/pom.xml
+++ b/dashboard/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
     <artifactId>dependencies-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.14-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.5.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>dashboard</artifactId>
 
diff --git a/dependencies/pom.xml b/dependencies/pom.xml
index 1ed34a35e..095ad93f3 100644
--- a/dependencies/pom.xml
+++ b/dependencies/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
     <artifactId>dependencies-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.14-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.5.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>dependencies</artifactId>
@@ -51,6 +51,19 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-shared-utils</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-shared-utils</artifactId>
+      <!-- This module doesn't directly use the classes in maven-shared-utils but declaring
+        this dependency to override the version declared in maven-core 3.8.8 -->
+      <version>3.3.3</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <!-- required to create PlexusContainer in RepositoryUtility-->
diff --git a/enforcer-rules/pom.xml b/enforcer-rules/pom.xml
index 627b1e82c..6039aeb65 100644
--- a/enforcer-rules/pom.xml
+++ b/enforcer-rules/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
     <artifactId>dependencies-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.14-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.5.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>linkage-checker-enforcer-rules</artifactId>
diff --git a/gradle-plugin/gradle.properties b/gradle-plugin/gradle.properties
index 8f47c2458..9425228d4 100644
--- a/gradle-plugin/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle-plugin/gradle.properties
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # scripts/prepare_release.sh maintains this value.
-version = 1.5.14-SNAPSHOT
+version = 1.5.16-SNAPSHOT
diff --git a/linkage-monitor/action.yml b/linkage-monitor/action.yml
index 76bddd68e..de4b76d89 100644
--- a/linkage-monitor/action.yml
+++ b/linkage-monitor/action.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ runs:
       # scripts/release.sh updates the version part in the URL
       run: |
         curl --output /tmp/linkage-monitor.jar \
-        "https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-opensource-java-linkage-monitor/linkage-monitor-1.5.14-SNAPSHOT-all-deps.jar"
+        "https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-opensource-java-linkage-monitor/linkage-monitor-1.5.16-SNAPSHOT-all-deps.jar"
       shell: bash
     - run: java -jar /tmp/linkage-monitor.jar com.google.cloud:libraries-bom
       shell: bash
diff --git a/linkage-monitor/pom.xml b/linkage-monitor/pom.xml
index 984f5e3e4..2dacf8e2e 100644
--- a/linkage-monitor/pom.xml
+++ b/linkage-monitor/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
     <artifactId>dependencies-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.14-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.5.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>linkage-monitor</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4ef99134b..7612f7f8f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
   <artifactId>dependencies-parent</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
-  <version>1.5.14-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.5.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
   <name>Cloud Tools Open Source Code Hygiene Tooling</name>
   <url>https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java/</url>