diff --git a/.github/readme/synth.metadata/synth.metadata b/.github/readme/synth.metadata/synth.metadata
index eb3c05578f..27c14978ff 100644
--- a/.github/readme/synth.metadata/synth.metadata
+++ b/.github/readme/synth.metadata/synth.metadata
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
       "git": {
         "name": ".",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigtable.git",
-        "sha": "2c7c1a8748a6874d9634fc9eca03f1ac26519d8f"
+        "sha": "ef6c1484929704caa6951d30f4ce5aa6d8e9964d"
       }
     },
     {
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f81c2cdab1..e12287a511 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ If you are using Maven with [BOM][libraries-bom], add this to your pom.xml file
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
-      <version>18.1.0</version>
+      <version>19.0.0</version>
       <type>pom</type>
       <scope>import</scope>
     </dependency>