diff --git a/.github/readme/synth.metadata/synth.metadata b/.github/readme/synth.metadata/synth.metadata
index 6821080e..a89d2468 100644
--- a/.github/readme/synth.metadata/synth.metadata
+++ b/.github/readme/synth.metadata/synth.metadata
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
       "git": {
         "name": ".",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/java-monitoring.git",
-        "sha": "1097d7dd5c39a34577d8b112772c213b8b1bc3fb"
+        "sha": "ba74e91ede29759e7d40954fd2c0cccb5e01c1d9"
       }
     },
     {
       "git": {
         "name": "synthtool",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/synthtool.git",
-        "sha": "996775eca5fd934edac3c2ae34b80ff0395b1717"
+        "sha": "41a4e56982620d3edcf110d76f4fcdfdec471ac8"
       }
     }
   ]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c396b1e2..02f62073 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ If you are using Maven with [BOM][libraries-bom], add this to your pom.xml file
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
-      <version>16.2.0</version>
+      <version>16.2.1</version>
       <type>pom</type>
       <scope>import</scope>
     </dependency>
@@ -44,10 +44,17 @@ If you are using Maven without BOM, add this to your dependencies:
 
 ```
 
-If you are using Gradle, add this to your dependencies
+If you are using Gradle 5.x or later, add this to your dependencies
+```Groovy
+implementation platform('com.google.cloud:libraries-bom:16.2.1')
+
+compile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-monitoring'
+```
+If you are using Gradle without BOM, add this to your dependencies
 ```Groovy
 compile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-monitoring:2.0.11'
 ```
+
 If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies
 ```Scala
 libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-monitoring" % "2.0.11"