diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
index b52b84a1ec71..5d1b1013cda2 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
@@ -430,7 +430,6 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
     def classgraph_version = "4.8.65"
     def google_clients_version = "1.30.10"
     def google_cloud_bigdataoss_version = "2.1.6"
-    def google_cloud_pubsub_version = "1.108.6"
     def google_cloud_pubsublite_version = "0.7.0"
     def google_code_gson_version = "2.8.6"
     def google_oauth_clients_version = "1.31.0"
@@ -527,7 +526,7 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         google_cloud_datacatalog_v1beta1            : "com.google.cloud:google-cloud-datacatalog", // google_cloud_platform_libraries_bom sets version
         google_cloud_dataflow_java_proto_library_all: "com.google.cloud.dataflow:google-cloud-dataflow-java-proto-library-all:0.5.160304",
         google_cloud_datastore_v1_proto_client      : "com.google.cloud.datastore:datastore-v1-proto-client:1.6.3",
-        google_cloud_pubsub                         : "com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsub:$google_cloud_pubsub_version",
+        google_cloud_pubsub                         : "com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsub", // google_cloud_platform_libraries_bom sets version
         google_cloud_pubsublite                     : "com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsublite:$google_cloud_pubsublite_version",
         // The GCP Libraries BOM dashboard shows the versions set by the BOM:
         // https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-opensource-java-dashboard/com.google.cloud/libraries-bom/16.3.0/artifact_details.html