diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 84c1e8200c7f..e23fc8a19445 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@
   "google-cloud-spanner-admin-database-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-spanner-admin-instance-v1": "2.4.0",
   "google-cloud-spanner-admin-instance-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
-  "google-cloud-spanner-v1": "1.12.1",
+  "google-cloud-spanner-v1": "1.13.0",
   "google-cloud-spanner-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-speech": "2.0.4",
   "google-cloud-speech+FILLER": "0.0.0",
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner-v1/CHANGELOG.md b/google-cloud-spanner-v1/CHANGELOG.md
index 725f25c7a678..b6aaf56bf622 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner-v1/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner-v1/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 1.13.0 (2026-01-13)
+
+#### Features
+
+* add a ClientContext field to Spanner requests ([#32336](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32336)) 
+* add Secure Parameters to the ClientContext 
+
 ### 1.12.1 (2025-11-21)
 
 #### Documentation
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner-v1/lib/google/cloud/spanner/v1/version.rb b/google-cloud-spanner-v1/lib/google/cloud/spanner/v1/version.rb
index 1d7ab34c6952..7c121d9b78fa 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner-v1/lib/google/cloud/spanner/v1/version.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner-v1/lib/google/cloud/spanner/v1/version.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module Google
   module Cloud
     module Spanner
       module V1
-        VERSION = "1.12.1"
+        VERSION = "1.13.0"
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner-v1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.spanner.v1.json b/google-cloud-spanner-v1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.spanner.v1.json
index cc6eafafa16f..9fff9ad067d5 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner-v1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.spanner.v1.json
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner-v1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.spanner.v1.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "client_library": {
     "name": "google-cloud-spanner-v1",
-    "version": "1.12.1",
+    "version": "1.13.0",
     "language": "RUBY",
     "apis": [
       {