diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 7b1015e63fc8..c8f1da56d86d 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.115.1"
+  ".": "0.116.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index d48e0cfba479..adc725ca1a72 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changes
 
+## [0.116.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/v0.115.1...v0.116.0) (2024-10-09)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **genai:** Add tokenizer package ([#10699](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10699)) ([214af16](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/214af1604bf3837f68e96dbf81c1331b90c9375f))
+
 ## [0.115.1](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/v0.115.0...v0.115.1) (2024-08-13)