diff --git a/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
index ee7eaa2b5d5..7b4e5063982 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-nio</artifactId>
-        <version>0.128.9</version>
+        <version>0.129.0-rc1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>