diff --git a/noxfile.py b/noxfile.py
index e246b05d..46ed3007 100644
--- a/noxfile.py
+++ b/noxfile.py
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 
 DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION = "3.10"
 
-
 UNIT_TEST_PYTHON_VERSIONS = ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
 UNIT_TEST_STANDARD_DEPENDENCIES = [
     "mock",
diff --git a/owlbot.py b/owlbot.py
index 1d5d912f..cde35a98 100644
--- a/owlbot.py
+++ b/owlbot.py
@@ -57,11 +57,16 @@
         "docs/multiprocessing.rst",
         "noxfile.py",
         "README.rst",
-        ".github/workflows/docs.yml",
+        ".github/workflows/docs.yml", # to avoid overwriting python version
+        ".github/workflows/lint.yml", # to avoid overwriting python version
         ".github/sync-repo-settings.yaml",
         # exclude this file as we have an alternate prerelease.cfg
         ".kokoro/presubmit/prerelease-deps.cfg",
         ".kokoro/presubmit/presubmit.cfg",
+        "renovate.json", # to avoid overwriting the ignorePaths list additions:
+                         # ".github/workflows/docs.yml AND lint.yml" specifically
+                         # the version of python referenced in each of those files.
+                         # Currently renovate bot wants to change 3.10 to 3.13.
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/renovate.json b/renovate.json
index c7875c46..9d9a6d0b 100644
--- a/renovate.json
+++ b/renovate.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     ":preserveSemverRanges",
     ":disableDependencyDashboard"
   ],
-  "ignorePaths": [".pre-commit-config.yaml", ".kokoro/requirements.txt", "setup.py", ".github/workflows/unittest.yml"],
+  "ignorePaths": [".pre-commit-config.yaml", ".kokoro/requirements.txt", "setup.py", ".github/workflows/unittest.yml", ".github/workflows/docs.yml", ".github/workflows/lint.yml"],
   "pip_requirements": {
     "fileMatch": ["requirements-test.txt", "samples/[\\S/]*constraints.txt", "samples/[\\S/]*constraints-test.txt"]
   }
diff --git a/samples/snippets/requirements-test.txt b/samples/snippets/requirements-test.txt
index 417ef037..2c7482f8 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-google-cloud-testutils==1.6.0
-pytest==8.3.5
+google-cloud-testutils==1.6.4
+pytest==8.4.1
diff --git a/samples/snippets/requirements.txt b/samples/snippets/requirements.txt
index ca1e1d0c..74d3b9cb 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-google-cloud-bigquery-storage==2.29.1
-google-cloud-bigquery==3.30.0
-pandas-gbq==0.28.0
-pandas==2.2.3
-pyarrow==19.0.1
+google-cloud-bigquery-storage==2.32.0
+google-cloud-bigquery==3.34.0
+pandas-gbq==0.29.1
+pandas==2.3.0
+pyarrow==20.0.0