diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
index 982d8cc34..131b6082d 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
   <properties>
     <autovalue.version>1.7</autovalue.version>
     <!-- when updating, make sure to align the versions of transitive deps below -->
-    <gax.version>1.53.1</gax.version>
+    <gax.version>1.54.0</gax.version>
     <google.api-common.version>1.8.1</google.api-common.version>
     <google.common-protos.version>1.17.0</google.common-protos.version>
     <google.core.version>1.92.5</google.core.version>