diff --git a/google-cloud-network-management-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-network-management-bom/pom.xml
index 43efa7d3..7987c9ed 100644
--- a/google-cloud-network-management-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-network-management-bom/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
diff --git a/google-cloud-network-management/pom.xml b/google-cloud-network-management/pom.xml
index 4e00a14a..9c2adc96 100644
--- a/google-cloud-network-management/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-network-management/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
@@ -117,4 +117,4 @@
         </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d62422e7..d628b8b2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-shared-dependencies</artifactId>
-        <version>1.3.0</version>
+        <version>1.4.0</version>
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>import</scope>
       </dependency>