From e7c85acc80a82299545c264287b45dbbf7dc269c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 01:04:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release spanner 1.69.0 (#10928)

Co-authored-by: release-please[bot] <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: rahul2393 <irahul@google.com>
---
 .release-please-manifest-individual.json |  2 +-
 spanner/CHANGES.md                       | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 spanner/internal/version.go              |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
index 31bb411f242a..94f8e1ef47ec 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   "profiler": "0.4.1",
   "pubsub": "1.43.0",
   "pubsublite": "1.8.2",
-  "spanner": "1.68.0",
+  "spanner": "1.69.0",
   "storage": "1.44.0",
   "vertexai": "0.13.1"
 }
diff --git a/spanner/CHANGES.md b/spanner/CHANGES.md
index da333511588e..9319da22e28f 100644
--- a/spanner/CHANGES.md
+++ b/spanner/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 # Changes
 
+## [1.69.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/spanner/v1.68.0...spanner/v1.69.0) (2024-10-03)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **spanner:** Add x-goog-spanner-end-to-end-tracing header for requests to Spanner ([#10241](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10241)) ([7f61cd5](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/7f61cd579f7e4ed4f1ac161f2c2a28e931406f16))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **spanner:** Handle errors ([#10943](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10943)) ([c67f964](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/c67f964de364808c02085dda61fa53e2b2fda850))
+
+
+### Performance Improvements
+
+* **spanner:** Use passthrough with emulator endpoint ([#10947](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10947)) ([9e964dd](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/9e964ddc01a54819f25435cfcc9d5b37c91f5a1d))
+
 ## [1.68.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/spanner/v1.67.0...spanner/v1.68.0) (2024-09-25)
 
 
diff --git a/spanner/internal/version.go b/spanner/internal/version.go
index 4ac3cb396fac..40131b9f6dde 100644
--- a/spanner/internal/version.go
+++ b/spanner/internal/version.go
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 package internal
 
 // Version is the current tagged release of the library.
-const Version = "1.68.0"
+const Version = "1.69.0"