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diff --git a/python-google-api-core.changes b/python-google-api-core.changes
index 1378d62..cd26ed2 100644
--- a/python-google-api-core.changes
+++ b/python-google-api-core.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan 12 10:41:08 UTC 2026 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
+
+- Update to 2.29.0
+  * Auto enable mTLS when supported certificates are detected (#869)
+  * make parse_version_to_tuple public (#864)
+  * flaky tests due to imprecision in floating point calculation and
+    performance test setup (#865)
+  * remove call to importlib.metadata.packages_distributions() for py38/py39 (#859)
+  * Log version check errors (#858)
+  * closes tailing streams in bidi classes. (#851)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov  3 11:17:52 UTC 2025 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-google-api-core.spec b/python-google-api-core.spec
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 %endif
 %{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
 Name:           python-google-api-core
-Version:        2.28.1
+Version:        2.29.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Google API client core library
 License:        Apache-2.0