diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
index 03a5c92f8996..31dafeb5cb47 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
     <bom.version>0.94.1-alpha-SNAPSHOT</bom.version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-bom:current} -->
     <api-client.version>1.29.2</api-client.version>
     <!-- make sure to keep gax version in sync with google-cloud-bom -->
-    <gax.version>1.44.0</gax.version>
+    <gax.version>1.45.0</gax.version>
     <api.common.java.version>1.8.1</api.common.java.version>
     <google.auth.version>0.15.0</google.auth.version>
     <grpc.version>1.21.0</grpc.version>