diff --git a/.github/workflows/conformance.yaml b/.github/workflows/conformance.yaml
index 63023d162..68545cbec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/conformance.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/conformance.yaml
@@ -30,18 +30,18 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
     name: "${{ matrix.client-type }} Client / Python ${{ matrix.py-version }} / Test Tag ${{ matrix.test-version }}"
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       name: "Checkout python-bigtable"
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       name: "Checkout conformance tests"
       with:
         repository: googleapis/cloud-bigtable-clients-test
         ref: ${{ matrix.test-version }}
         path: cloud-bigtable-clients-test
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.py-version }}
-    - uses: actions/setup-go@v4
+    - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
       with:
         go-version: '>=1.20.2'
     - run: chmod +x .kokoro/conformance.sh
diff --git a/.github/workflows/system_emulated.yml b/.github/workflows/system_emulated.yml
index 7669901c9..fa5ef15af 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/system_emulated.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/system_emulated.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
         python-version: '3.8'
 
     - name: Setup GCloud SDK
-      uses: google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v2.0.0
+      uses: google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v2.1.0
 
     - name: Install / run Nox
       run: |
diff --git a/samples/beam/requirements-test.txt b/samples/beam/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/beam/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/beam/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/beam/requirements.txt b/samples/beam/requirements.txt
index 813fc8d2b..70b1371ae 100644
--- a/samples/beam/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/beam/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-apache-beam==2.52.0
+apache-beam==2.53.0
 google-cloud-bigtable==2.22.0
 google-cloud-core==2.4.1
diff --git a/samples/hello/requirements-test.txt b/samples/hello/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/hello/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/hello/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/hello_happybase/requirements-test.txt b/samples/hello_happybase/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/hello_happybase/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/hello_happybase/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/instanceadmin/requirements-test.txt b/samples/instanceadmin/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/instanceadmin/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/instanceadmin/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/metricscaler/requirements-test.txt b/samples/metricscaler/requirements-test.txt
index c0d4f7003..8b8270b6c 100644
--- a/samples/metricscaler/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/metricscaler/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
 mock==5.1.0
 google-cloud-testutils
diff --git a/samples/metricscaler/requirements.txt b/samples/metricscaler/requirements.txt
index 38c355ce3..be3b2b222 100644
--- a/samples/metricscaler/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/metricscaler/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 google-cloud-bigtable==2.22.0
-google-cloud-monitoring==2.18.0
+google-cloud-monitoring==2.19.0
diff --git a/samples/quickstart/requirements-test.txt b/samples/quickstart/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/quickstart/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/quickstart/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/quickstart_happybase/requirements-test.txt b/samples/quickstart_happybase/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/quickstart_happybase/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/quickstart_happybase/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/snippets/deletes/requirements-test.txt b/samples/snippets/deletes/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/deletes/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/deletes/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/snippets/filters/requirements-test.txt b/samples/snippets/filters/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/filters/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/filters/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/snippets/reads/requirements-test.txt b/samples/snippets/reads/requirements-test.txt
index cb87efc0f..8075a1ec5 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/reads/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/reads/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/snippets/writes/requirements-test.txt b/samples/snippets/writes/requirements-test.txt
index 43b02e724..aaa563abc 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/writes/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/writes/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 backoff==2.2.1
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
diff --git a/samples/tableadmin/requirements-test.txt b/samples/tableadmin/requirements-test.txt
index aa143f59d..b4d30f505 100644
--- a/samples/tableadmin/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/tableadmin/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-pytest==7.4.4
+pytest==8.0.0
 google-cloud-testutils==1.4.0