diff --git a/bom/pom.xml b/bom/pom.xml
index 985720e9..022b0b4d 100644
--- a/bom/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
 
-        <google-cloud-sdk.version>26.37.0</google-cloud-sdk.version>
+        <google-cloud-sdk.version>26.42.0</google-cloud-sdk.version>
 
         <!-- Dependency convergence issues -->
         <opencensus.version>0.31.1</opencensus.version><!-- mess in google-pubsub and grpc deps; should be rather stable as OpenCensus has been sunsetted already - see https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java/issues/862 -->