From c7b058f67fd10da74f91b89f5dff46b09b350ac5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 10:33:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release google-cloud-bigquery 1.61.0

---
 .release-please-manifest.json                            | 2 +-
 google-cloud-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md                       | 9 +++++++++
 .../lib/google/cloud/bigquery/version.rb                 | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 925bda9ac843..94b63e360cde 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
   "google-cloud-beyond_corp-app_gateways-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-beyond_corp-client_gateways-v1": "0.10.1",
   "google-cloud-beyond_corp-client_gateways-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
-  "google-cloud-bigquery": "1.60.0",
+  "google-cloud-bigquery": "1.61.0",
   "google-cloud-bigquery+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-bigquery-analytics_hub": "1.3.2",
   "google-cloud-bigquery-analytics_hub+FILLER": "0.0.0",
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md b/google-cloud-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
index 1458933dc3a5..455bdfe67441 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 1.61.0 (2025-11-04)
+
+#### Features
+
+* Support fine grained ACLs ([#31772](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/31772)) 
+#### Documentation
+
+* add warning about loading unvalidated credentials ([#32121](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32121)) 
+
 ### 1.60.0 (2025-10-24)
 
 #### Features
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/lib/google/cloud/bigquery/version.rb b/google-cloud-bigquery/lib/google/cloud/bigquery/version.rb
index 9a4079304ad2..769e8535b7d7 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/lib/google/cloud/bigquery/version.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/lib/google/cloud/bigquery/version.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 module Google
   module Cloud
     module Bigquery
-      VERSION = "1.60.0".freeze
+      VERSION = "1.61.0".freeze
     end
   end
 end