chore(main): release google-cloud-essential_contacts-v1 1.6.0 (#33551)

Author: release-please[bot]

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
   "google-cloud-errors+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-essential_contacts": "1.6.0",
   "google-cloud-essential_contacts+FILLER": "0.0.0",
-  "google-cloud-essential_contacts-v1": "1.5.0",
+  "google-cloud-essential_contacts-v1": "1.6.0",
   "google-cloud-essential_contacts-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-eventarc": "2.1.0",
   "google-cloud-eventarc+FILLER": "0.0.0",

google-cloud-essential_contacts-v1/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+### 1.6.0 (2026-04-02)
+
+#### Features
+
+* publish client batch config schema ([#33434](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/33434)) 
+
 ### 1.5.0 (2026-03-19)
 
 #### Features

google-cloud-essential_contacts-v1/lib/google/cloud/essential_contacts/v1/version.rb

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module Google
   module Cloud
     module EssentialContacts
       module V1
-        VERSION = "1.5.0"
+        VERSION = "1.6.0"
       end
     end
   end

google-cloud-essential_contacts-v1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "client_library": {
     "name": "google-cloud-essential_contacts-v1",
-    "version": "1.5.0",
+    "version": "1.6.0",
     "language": "RUBY",
     "apis": [
       {