diff --git a/.github/workflows/downstream-native-image.yaml b/.github/workflows/downstream-native-image.yaml
index 49ae868fe..7d8eb4cab 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/downstream-native-image.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/downstream-native-image.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        graalvm: [22.2.0, 22.1.0]
+        graalvm: [22.2.0]
         java: [11, 17]
         repo:
         # GAPIC library that doesn't use a real GCP project in integration tests
diff --git a/dependencies.properties b/dependencies.properties
index 7bbe269dd..2ddde6b54 100644
--- a/dependencies.properties
+++ b/dependencies.properties
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ maven.com_google_http_client_google_http_client=com.google.http-client:google-ht
 maven.com_google_http_client_google_http_client_gson=com.google.http-client:google-http-client-gson:1.42.0
 maven.org_codehaus_mojo_animal_sniffer_annotations=org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-annotations:1.18
 maven.javax_annotation_javax_annotation_api=javax.annotation:javax.annotation-api:1.3.2
-maven.org_graalvm_sdk=org.graalvm.sdk:graal-sdk:22.1.0.1
+maven.org_graalvm_sdk=org.graalvm.sdk:graal-sdk:22.2.0
 
 # Testing maven artifacts
 maven.junit_junit=junit:junit:4.13.2
diff --git a/gax-grpc/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.api/gax-grpc/native-image.properties b/gax-grpc/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.api/gax-grpc/native-image.properties
index 8620cb95a..f8c0ada53 100644
--- a/gax-grpc/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.api/gax-grpc/native-image.properties
+++ b/gax-grpc/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.google.api/gax-grpc/native-image.properties
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ Args = --initialize-at-run-time=io.grpc.netty.shaded.io.netty.handler.ssl.OpenSs
     io.grpc.netty.shaded.io.netty.handler.ssl,\
     io.grpc.internal.RetriableStream \
   --features=com.google.api.gax.grpc.nativeimage.ProtobufMessageFeature,\
-  com.google.api.gax.grpc.nativeimage.GrpcNettyFeature
\ No newline at end of file
+  com.google.api.gax.grpc.nativeimage.GrpcNettyFeature \
+  -H:-RunReachabilityHandlersConcurrently
\ No newline at end of file