diff --git a/dialogflow/snippets/pom.xml b/dialogflow/snippets/pom.xml
index ce794ed26ae..58a8a85318d 100644
--- a/dialogflow/snippets/pom.xml
+++ b/dialogflow/snippets/pom.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-core</artifactId>
-      <version>2.7.1</version>
+      <version>2.8.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
       <classifier>tests</classifier>
     </dependency>