From 3ed65c4524795410e49f92c8662f7d344b60f710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:43:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release google-cloud-storage 1.62.1

---
 .release-please-manifest.json                            | 2 +-
 google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md                        | 6 ++++++
 google-cloud-storage/lib/google/cloud/storage/version.rb | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index a427788baf7b..766e55b7c6e5 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@
   "google-cloud-sql-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-sql-v1beta4": "0.1.1",
   "google-cloud-sql-v1beta4+FILLER": "0.0.0",
-  "google-cloud-storage": "1.62.0",
+  "google-cloud-storage": "1.62.1",
   "google-cloud-storage+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-storage-control": "1.4.1",
   "google-cloud-storage-control+FILLER": "0.0.0",
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md b/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md
index 4eaa4029494e..147062812f12 100644
--- a/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 1.62.1 (2026-08-11)
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+
+* Remove accept encoding gzip for metadata ([#33896](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/33896)) 
+
 ### 1.62.0 (2026-07-02)
 
 #### Features
diff --git a/google-cloud-storage/lib/google/cloud/storage/version.rb b/google-cloud-storage/lib/google/cloud/storage/version.rb
index c09ab9cb7326..df8ba9d59809 100644
--- a/google-cloud-storage/lib/google/cloud/storage/version.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-storage/lib/google/cloud/storage/version.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 module Google
   module Cloud
     module Storage
-      VERSION = "1.62.0".freeze
+      VERSION = "1.62.1".freeze
     end
   end
 end