chore: release main (#18541)

Author: release-please[bot]

.release-please-bulk-manifest.json

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
   "packages/google-cloud-beyondcorp-clientgateways": "0.8.1",
   "packages/google-cloud-biglake": "0.5.2",
   "packages/google-cloud-biglake-hive": "0.3.5",
-  "packages/google-cloud-bigquery": "3.46.0",
+  "packages/google-cloud-bigquery": "3.46.1",
   "packages/google-cloud-bigquery-analyticshub": "0.9.1",
   "packages/google-cloud-bigquery-biglake": "0.8.1",
   "packages/google-cloud-bigquery-connection": "1.23.0",
@@ -277,5 +277,5 @@
   "packages/grpc-google-iam-v1": "0.14.5",
   "packages/pandas-gbq": "0.35.2",
   "packages/proto-plus": "1.29.0",
-  "packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery": "1.17.2"
+  "packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery": "1.17.3"
 }

librarian.yaml

@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ libraries:
     python:
       default_version: v1beta
   - name: google-cloud-bigquery
-    version: 3.46.0
+    version: 3.46.1
     python:
       library_type: GAPIC_COMBO
       metadata_name_override: bigquery
@@ -2672,7 +2672,7 @@ libraries:
     python:
       library_type: CORE
   - name: sqlalchemy-bigquery
-    version: 1.17.2
+    version: 1.17.3
     python:
       library_type: INTEGRATION
   - name: sqlalchemy-spanner

packages/google-cloud-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-bigquery/#history
 
+## [3.46.1](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/google-cloud-bigquery-v3.46.0...google-cloud-bigquery-v3.46.1) (2026-10-02)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **bigquery:** account for range element type, rounding mode, and foreign type in SchemaField equality ([#18540](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18540)) ([053dbc9](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/053dbc9872ad3f26e10c311ff801b1a85faf1c32))
+
 ## [3.46.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/google-cloud-bigquery-v3.45.2...google-cloud-bigquery-v3.46.0) (2026-10-01)
 
 

packages/google-cloud-bigquery/google/cloud/bigquery/version.py

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-__version__ = "3.46.0"
+__version__ = "3.46.1"

packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ Older versions of this project were distributed as [pybigquery][0].
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-bigquery/#history
 
+## [1.17.3](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.2...sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.3) (2026-10-02)
+
+
+### Performance Improvements
+
+* **sqlalchemy-bigquery:** parallelize compliance tests with worker-partitioned datasets and pytest-xdist ([#18534](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18534)) ([855bbde](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/855bbde93ea4a5556d2843a6ea6d2b8ee118ba9a))
+
 ## [1.17.2](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.1...sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.2) (2026-08-06)
 
 

packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py

@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 # IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 # CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-__version__ = "1.17.2"
+__version__ = "1.17.3"