diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 15d0a2cfc9..ab0f733fe3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,31 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [2.7.0](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/compare/v2.6.1...v2.7.0) (2022-05-24)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* add build scripts for native image testing in Java 17 ([#1440](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1440)) ([#1400](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1400)) ([274a373](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/274a3733b72d2aa1e2916edf40a72c013aaf1711))
+* add Storage#downloadTo ([#1354](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1354)) ([5a565a7](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/5a565a74cd6aaa85ed81a8cea026477512fbd5da))
+* change GCS gRPC API to get user billing project from gRPC metadata instead of CommonRequestParams, and remove latter ([#1396](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1396)) ([8a7755c](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/8a7755cc8352b3ab21c252885fb86576474d7f09))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* add new storage_download_byte_range samples ([#1325](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1325)) ([cef3d13](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/cef3d138fd11762437ac59adee6a198139acb7f5))
+* **sample:** removing unnecessary native-image-support dependency ([#1373](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1373)) ([3a246ef](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/3a246ef4f0a75e52734df52772d34547632ab85f))
+
+
+### Dependencies
+
+* update dependency com.google.apis:google-api-services-storage to v1-rev20220509-1.32.1 ([#1386](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1386)) ([4e93c8e](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/4e93c8e6f3c8259968a3dd35a15e752a81491af2))
+* update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsub to v1.116.4 ([#1360](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1360)) ([66c7ffe](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/66c7ffe112242915165286a972c44fc2568b67c8))
+* update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsub to v1.117.0 ([#1382](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1382)) ([0cd01a0](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/0cd01a0eb498a994c330cc985c21b3248ecba8fa))
+* update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsub to v1.118.0 ([#1397](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1397)) ([fc0c187](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/fc0c187096058f84a2f73704b29457c5c6d744fe))
+* update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v2.11.0 ([#1398](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1398)) ([8834423](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/8834423f8772310b1a99aa393095e319a4169307))
+* update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v2.12.0 ([#1402](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1402)) ([32cded4](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/32cded493442ed5e7b524cd2478e97f00fd90c3c))
+* update kms.version to v0.95.4 ([#1361](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/issues/1361)) ([2f42ba2](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/commit/2f42ba296bf5ace92159ee02885eaf0e4d9c9864))
+
 ### [2.6.1](https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage/compare/v2.6.0...v2.6.1) (2022-04-15)
 
 
diff --git a/gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml b/gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
index da1dd149c5..82278b3a11 100644
--- a/gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
+++ b/gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
   <artifactId>gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2</artifactId>
-  <version>2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
+  <version>2.7.0-alpha</version><!-- {x-version-update:gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
   <name>gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2</name>
   <description>GRPC library for gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2</description>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-cloud-storage-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
+    <version>2.7.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
   </parent>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/pom.xml b/google-cloud-storage/pom.xml
index e8fddafd16..818345a79d 100644
--- a/google-cloud-storage/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>google-cloud-storage</artifactId>
-  <version>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
+  <version>2.7.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>Google Cloud Storage</name>
   <url>https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage</url>
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-cloud-storage-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
+    <version>2.7.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
   </parent>
   <properties>
     <site.installationModule>google-cloud-storage</site.installationModule>
diff --git a/grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml b/grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
index 976bfb9d5c..271fd35a80 100644
--- a/grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
+++ b/grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
   <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2</artifactId>
-  <version>2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
+  <version>2.7.0-alpha</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
   <name>grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2</name>
   <description>GRPC library for grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2</description>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-cloud-storage-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
+    <version>2.7.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
   </parent>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3519989ba4..f7b1be955f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
   <artifactId>google-cloud-storage-parent</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
-  <version>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
+  <version>2.7.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
   <name>Storage Parent</name>
   <url>https://github.com/googleapis/java-storage</url>
   <description>
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-storage</artifactId>
-        <version>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
+        <version>2.7.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.apis</groupId>
@@ -111,17 +111,17 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-storage-v2</artifactId>
-        <version>2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
+        <version>2.7.0-alpha</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2</artifactId>
-        <version>2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
+        <version>2.7.0-alpha</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2</artifactId>
-        <version>2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
+        <version>2.7.0-alpha</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
diff --git a/proto-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml b/proto-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
index 1b65712ed2..5f627c4142 100644
--- a/proto-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
+++ b/proto-google-cloud-storage-v2/pom.xml
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
   <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-storage-v2</artifactId>
-  <version>2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
+  <version>2.7.0-alpha</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-storage-v2:current} -->
   <name>proto-google-cloud-storage-v2</name>
   <description>PROTO library for proto-google-cloud-storage-v2</description>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-cloud-storage-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
+    <version>2.7.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
   </parent>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/samples/snapshot/pom.xml b/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
index 38d773aa12..617afe4af5 100644
--- a/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-storage</artifactId>
-      <version>2.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
+      <version>2.7.0</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-storage:current} -->
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
diff --git a/versions.txt b/versions.txt
index 7df2a1030c..7ed3231252 100644
--- a/versions.txt
+++ b/versions.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Format:
 # module:released-version:current-version
 
-google-cloud-storage:2.6.1:2.6.2-SNAPSHOT
-gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2:2.6.1-alpha:2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT
-grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2:2.6.1-alpha:2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT
-proto-google-cloud-storage-v2:2.6.1-alpha:2.6.2-alpha-SNAPSHOT
+google-cloud-storage:2.7.0:2.7.0
+gapic-google-cloud-storage-v2:2.7.0-alpha:2.7.0-alpha
+grpc-google-cloud-storage-v2:2.7.0-alpha:2.7.0-alpha
+proto-google-cloud-storage-v2:2.7.0-alpha:2.7.0-alpha