diff --git a/java-shared-dependencies/first-party-dependencies/pom.xml b/java-shared-dependencies/first-party-dependencies/pom.xml
index 9f16cd7166..b2b61b17c5 100644
--- a/java-shared-dependencies/first-party-dependencies/pom.xml
+++ b/java-shared-dependencies/first-party-dependencies/pom.xml
@@ -55,9 +55,8 @@
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <site.installationModule>${project.artifactId}</site.installationModule>
-
     <grpc.version>1.40.1</grpc.version>
-    <gax.version>2.3.0</gax.version>
+    <gax.version>2.4.0</gax.version>
     <grpc-gcp.version>1.1.0</grpc-gcp.version>
     <guava.version>30.1.1-jre</guava.version>
     <protobuf.version>3.17.3</protobuf.version>
@@ -189,4 +188,4 @@
       </dependency>
     </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>