From f100a9697ef10d3bc0699c55b16a13605bf82799 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:53:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore(main): release google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1
 0.16.0

---
 .release-please-manifest.json                         |  2 +-
 google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/CHANGELOG.md           | 11 +++++++++++
 .../lib/google/cloud/notebooks/v1beta1/version.rb     |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 2eb18801f30f..32e6588d8214 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@
   "google-cloud-notebooks+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-notebooks-v1": "1.3.1",
   "google-cloud-notebooks-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
-  "google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1": "0.15.1",
+  "google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1": "0.16.0",
   "google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-notebooks-v2": "1.3.1",
   "google-cloud-notebooks-v2+FILLER": "0.0.0",
diff --git a/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/CHANGELOG.md b/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/CHANGELOG.md
index 8f295ea8bb1c..8aac27eb990a 100644
--- a/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 0.16.0 (2026-03-19)
+
+#### Features
+
+* Add irb as explicit dependency for Ruby 4.0 compatibility ([#32891](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32891)) 
+* Update minimum Ruby to v3.2 and required dependencies for Ruby v4.0 ([#32849](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32849)) 
+* Update minimum Ruby to v3.2 and required dependencies for Ruby v4.0 ([#32851](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32851)) 
+* Update minimum Ruby to v3.2 and required dependencies for Ruby v4.0 ([#32853](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32853)) 
+* Update minimum Ruby to v3.2 and required dependencies for Ruby v4.0 ([#32854](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32854)) 
+* Update minimum Ruby to v3.2 and required dependencies for Ruby v4.0 ([#32855](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32855)) 
+
 ### 0.15.1 (2025-10-27)
 
 #### Documentation
diff --git a/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/lib/google/cloud/notebooks/v1beta1/version.rb b/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/lib/google/cloud/notebooks/v1beta1/version.rb
index b1e50b5f04dd..7e55017972f0 100644
--- a/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/lib/google/cloud/notebooks/v1beta1/version.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/lib/google/cloud/notebooks/v1beta1/version.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module Google
   module Cloud
     module Notebooks
       module V1beta1
-        VERSION = "0.15.1"
+        VERSION = "0.16.0"
       end
     end
   end

From 80fd053512219c4410e4d6b8c0ab1710acc4c34a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Owl Bot <gcf-owl-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:38:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=A6=89=20Updates=20from=20OwlBot=20po?=
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---
 .../snippet_metadata_google.cloud.notebooks.v1beta1.json        | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.cloud.notebooks.v1beta1.json b/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.cloud.notebooks.v1beta1.json
index 11db97beb445..e8bbafddb3e1 100644
--- a/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.cloud.notebooks.v1beta1.json
+++ b/google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.cloud.notebooks.v1beta1.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "client_library": {
     "name": "google-cloud-notebooks-v1beta1",
-    "version": "0.15.1",
+    "version": "0.16.0",
     "language": "RUBY",
     "apis": [
       {