diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-automl/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/google-cloud-automl/CHANGELOG.md
index 4c7f705f9a81..8f31f9752e89 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-automl/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-automl/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-automl/#history
 
+## [2.6.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/compare/v2.5.2...v2.6.0) (2022-01-15)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* publish updated protos for cloud/automl/v1 service  ([#318](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/issues/318)) ([3bf0271](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/commit/3bf0271dce60fe9843711068e85978b627f77db6))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **deps:** allow google-cloud-storage < 3.0.0dev ([#316](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/issues/316)) ([ba271a8](https://github.com/googleapis/python-automl/commit/ba271a8cfea916f7fb3df536258cda2dca32a423))
+
 ### [2.5.2](https://www.github.com/googleapis/python-automl/compare/v2.5.1...v2.5.2) (2021-11-01)
 
 
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-automl/setup.py b/packages/google-cloud-automl/setup.py
index 292f6eaa6986..2a5012172d27 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-automl/setup.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-automl/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 name = "google-cloud-automl"
 description = "Cloud AutoML API client library"
-version = "2.5.2"
+version = "2.6.0"
 release_status = "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable"
 dependencies = [
     # NOTE: Maintainers, please do not require google-api-core>=2.x.x