diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable-bom/pom.xml
index fa2e810bb6..95c4723e1a 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-bom/pom.xml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
         <dependency>
           <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
           <artifactId>google-cloud-bigtable</artifactId>
-          <version>2.70.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-bigtable:current} -->
+          <version>2.71.0-rc1</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-bigtable:current} -->
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
           <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bb1c06205b..8af7c9980f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
                 <artifactId>google-cloud-bigtable</artifactId>
-                <version>2.70.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-bigtable:current} -->
+                <version>2.71.0-rc1</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-bigtable:current} -->
             </dependency>
             <!-- Test Deps in alphabetical order -->
             <dependency>
diff --git a/samples/install-without-bom/pom.xml b/samples/install-without-bom/pom.xml
index 3abc0a6617..a7cc740056 100644
--- a/samples/install-without-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/install-without-bom/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-bigtable</artifactId>
-      <version>2.67.0</version>
+      <version>2.71.0-rc1</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- [END bigtable_install_without_bom] -->
 
diff --git a/samples/snapshot/pom.xml b/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
index 5d4c5f396b..2f3c461516 100644
--- a/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-bigtable</artifactId>
-      <version>2.70.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <version>2.71.0-rc1</version>
     </dependency>
   <!-- {x-version-update-end} -->