chore: librarian release pull request: 20260108T001607Z (#2355)

PR created by the Librarian CLI to initialize a release. Merging this PR
will auto trigger a release.

Librarian Version: v0.7.0
Language Image:
us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-sdk-librarian-prod/images-prod/python-librarian-generator@sha256:c8612d3fffb3f6a32353b2d1abd16b61e87811866f7ec9d65b59b02eb452a620
<details><summary>google-cloud-bigquery: 3.40.0</summary>

##
[3.40.0](v3.39.0...v3.40.0)
(2026-01-08)

### Features

* support load_table and list_rows with picosecond timestamp (#2351)
([46764a5](46764a59))

* support timestamp_precision in table schema (#2333)
([8d5785a](8d5785ae))

</details>

Author: Linchin

.librarian/state.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 image: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-sdk-librarian-prod/images-prod/python-librarian-generator@sha256:c8612d3fffb3f6a32353b2d1abd16b61e87811866f7ec9d65b59b02eb452a620
 libraries:
   - id: google-cloud-bigquery
-    version: 3.39.0
+    version: 3.40.0
     last_generated_commit: ""
     apis: []
     source_roots:

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-bigquery/#history
 
+## [3.40.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/google-cloud-bigquery-v3.39.0...google-cloud-bigquery-v3.40.0) (2026-01-08)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* support load_table and list_rows with picosecond timestamp (#2351) ([46764a59ca7a21ed14ad2c91eb7f98c302736c22](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/46764a59ca7a21ed14ad2c91eb7f98c302736c22))
+* support timestamp_precision in table schema (#2333) ([8d5785aea50b9f9e5b13bd4c91e8a08d6dac7778](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/8d5785aea50b9f9e5b13bd4c91e8a08d6dac7778))
+
 ## [3.39.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/google-cloud-bigquery-v3.38.0...google-cloud-bigquery-v3.39.0) (2025-12-12)
 
 

google/cloud/bigquery/version.py

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-__version__ = "3.39.0"
+__version__ = "3.40.0"