diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 8c0e4a28..f00abc15 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "google-cloud-spanner": "2.36.1"
+  "google-cloud-spanner": "2.37.0"
 }
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/CHANGELOG.md b/google-cloud-spanner/CHANGELOG.md
index 15013042..6cbb2b5e 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 2.37.0 (2026-10-23)
+
+#### Features
+
+* add send_message and ack_message to Commit ([#262](https://github.com/googleapis/ruby-spanner/issues/262)) 
+#### Documentation
+
+* link to the published Ruby version support policy ([#272](https://github.com/googleapis/ruby-spanner/issues/272)) 
+
 ### 2.36.1 (2026-10-13)
 
 #### Documentation
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/lib/google/cloud/spanner/version.rb b/google-cloud-spanner/lib/google/cloud/spanner/version.rb
index 21f0b114..a3b1c7ea 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/lib/google/cloud/spanner/version.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/lib/google/cloud/spanner/version.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 module Google
   module Cloud
     module Spanner
-      VERSION = "2.36.1".freeze
+      VERSION = "2.37.0".freeze
     end
   end
 end