diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 6ed9c801..984e5f0f 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "2.7.0"
+  ".": "2.7.1"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5edd4fa5..2fdc2c88 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+### 2.7.1 (2026-10-19)
+
+#### Documentation
+
+* trigger a release to verify the new publishing pipeline ([#439](https://github.com/googleapis/ruby-spanner-activerecord/issues/439)) 
+
 ### 2.7.0 (2026-08-19)
 
 #### Features
diff --git a/lib/activerecord_spanner_adapter/version.rb b/lib/activerecord_spanner_adapter/version.rb
index f9713416..68615669 100644
--- a/lib/activerecord_spanner_adapter/version.rb
+++ b/lib/activerecord_spanner_adapter/version.rb
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@
 # https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
 
 module ActiveRecordSpannerAdapter
-  VERSION = "2.7.0".freeze
+  VERSION = "2.7.1".freeze
 end