diff --git a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
index 1776a5c7838d..c3356503269f 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "auth": "0.0.0",
+  "auth": "0.1.0",
   "bigquery": "1.54.0",
   "bigtable": "1.19.0",
   "datastore": "1.14.0",
diff --git a/auth/CHANGES.md b/auth/CHANGES.md
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index 000000000000..9873ad666554
--- /dev/null
+++ b/auth/CHANGES.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Changelog
+
+## 0.1.0 (2023-08-24)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **auth:** Add base auth package ([#8465](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/8465)) ([6a45f26](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/6a45f26b809b64edae21f312c18d4205f96b180e))