diff --git a/gapic-generator-java/pom.xml b/gapic-generator-java/pom.xml
index 44b91e1d63..a40eeb784c 100644
--- a/gapic-generator-java/pom.xml
+++ b/gapic-generator-java/pom.xml
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.googlejavaformat</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-java-format</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7</version>
+      <version>1.28.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
diff --git a/gax-java/dependencies.properties b/gax-java/dependencies.properties
index 40f3ea9567..4601861b3a 100644
--- a/gax-java/dependencies.properties
+++ b/gax-java/dependencies.properties
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ version.gax_httpjson=2.68.2-SNAPSHOT
 # not for self-service clients (from googleapis project).
 
 version.com_google_protobuf=3.25.8
-version.google_java_format=1.15.0
+version.google_java_format=1.28.0
 version.io_grpc=1.71.0
 
 # Maven artifacts.