diff --git a/bigquery/bigquery-hadoop1.pom.xml b/bigquery/bigquery-hadoop1.pom.xml
index cfba8032f9..62b0d09ef2 100644
--- a/bigquery/bigquery-hadoop1.pom.xml
+++ b/bigquery/bigquery-hadoop1.pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>bigquery-connector-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.7.7</version>
+    <version>0.7.8</version>
     <relativePath>pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <description>
     Hadoop 2 MapReduce input and output formats for use with BigQuery
   </description>
-  <version>0.7.7-hadoop1</version>
+  <version>0.7.8-hadoop1</version>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/bigquery/bigquery-hadoop2.pom.xml b/bigquery/bigquery-hadoop2.pom.xml
index ce4f9926cc..f727837196 100644
--- a/bigquery/bigquery-hadoop2.pom.xml
+++ b/bigquery/bigquery-hadoop2.pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>bigquery-connector-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.7.7</version>
+    <version>0.7.8</version>
     <relativePath>pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <description>
     Hadoop 2 MapReduce input and output formats for use with BigQuery
   </description>
-  <version>0.7.7-hadoop2</version>
+  <version>0.7.8-hadoop2</version>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/bigquery/pom.xml b/bigquery/pom.xml
index dfebc05645..03d9fb9eae 100644
--- a/bigquery/pom.xml
+++ b/bigquery/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>bigdataoss-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <description>
     MapReduce input and output formats for use with BigQuery
   </description>
-  <version>0.7.7</version>
+  <version>0.7.8</version>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/hadoop/io/bigquery/CHANGES.txt b/bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/hadoop/io/bigquery/CHANGES.txt
index 7936e2f494..01032dda86 100644
--- a/bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/hadoop/io/bigquery/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/hadoop/io/bigquery/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+0.7.8 - 2016-08-23
+
+  1. Updated AbstractGoogleAsyncWriteChannel to always set the
+     X-Goog-Upload-Desired-Chunk-Granularity header independently from the
+     deprecated X-Goog-Upload-Max-Raw-Size; in general this improves
+     performance of large uploads.
+
+
 0.7.7 - 2016-07-29
 
   1.  Misc updates in gcs-related library dependencies.
diff --git a/gcs/CHANGES.txt b/gcs/CHANGES.txt
index 27d14ab142..7386e3e0af 100644
--- a/gcs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/gcs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+1.5.2 - 2016-08-23
+
+  1. Updated AbstractGoogleAsyncWriteChannel to always set the
+     X-Goog-Upload-Desired-Chunk-Granularity header independently from the
+     deprecated X-Goog-Upload-Max-Raw-Size; in general this improves
+     performance of large uploads.
+
+
 1.5.1 - 2016-07-29
 
   1. Optimized InMemoryDirectoryListCache to use a TreeMap internally instead
diff --git a/gcs/gcs-hadoop1.pom.xml b/gcs/gcs-hadoop1.pom.xml
index dab8ee7d58..ea904275d4 100644
--- a/gcs/gcs-hadoop1.pom.xml
+++ b/gcs/gcs-hadoop1.pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>gcs-connector-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <description>
     An implementation of org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem targeting Google Cloud Storage
   </description>
-  <version>1.5.1-hadoop1</version>
+  <version>1.5.2-hadoop1</version>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/gcs/gcs-hadoop2.pom.xml b/gcs/gcs-hadoop2.pom.xml
index 4d1abbeb26..c452d18174 100644
--- a/gcs/gcs-hadoop2.pom.xml
+++ b/gcs/gcs-hadoop2.pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>gcs-connector-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <description>
     An implementation of org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem targeting Google Cloud Storage
   </description>
-  <version>1.5.1-hadoop2</version>
+  <version>1.5.2-hadoop2</version>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/gcs/pom.xml b/gcs/pom.xml
index 59f5ed7aaa..52dcf08898 100644
--- a/gcs/pom.xml
+++ b/gcs/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>bigdataoss-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <description>
     An implementation of org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem targeting Google Cloud Storage
   </description>
-  <version>1.5.1</version>
+  <version>1.5.2</version>
 
   <profiles>
     <profile>
diff --git a/gcsio/pom.xml b/gcsio/pom.xml
index 32966b22e1..6779533f5c 100644
--- a/gcsio/pom.xml
+++ b/gcsio/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>bigdataoss-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   <description>
     An implementation of org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem targeting Google Cloud Storage
   </description>
-  <version>1.5.1</version>
+  <version>1.5.2</version>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.api-client</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d095d18171..f13d52f6ff 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
   <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
   <artifactId>bigdataoss-parent</artifactId>
-  <version>1.5.1</version>
+  <version>1.5.2</version>
   <name>BigDataOSS Parent</name>
   <description>
     Parent project for Google Cloud Platform Big-Data connectors.
@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@
   </prerequisites>
 
   <properties>
-    <bigdataoss.util.version>1.5.1</bigdataoss.util.version>
-    <bigdataoss.gcsio.version>1.5.1</bigdataoss.gcsio.version>
-    <bigdataoss.util-hadoop.one.version>1.5.1-hadoop1</bigdataoss.util-hadoop.one.version>
-    <bigdataoss.util-hadoop.two.version>1.5.1-hadoop2</bigdataoss.util-hadoop.two.version>
-    <bigdataoss.gcs.hadoop.one.version>1.5.1-hadoop1</bigdataoss.gcs.hadoop.one.version>
-    <bigdataoss.gcs.hadoop.two.version>1.5.1-hadoop2</bigdataoss.gcs.hadoop.two.version>
+    <bigdataoss.util.version>1.5.2</bigdataoss.util.version>
+    <bigdataoss.gcsio.version>1.5.2</bigdataoss.gcsio.version>
+    <bigdataoss.util-hadoop.one.version>1.5.2-hadoop1</bigdataoss.util-hadoop.one.version>
+    <bigdataoss.util-hadoop.two.version>1.5.2-hadoop2</bigdataoss.util-hadoop.two.version>
+    <bigdataoss.gcs.hadoop.one.version>1.5.2-hadoop1</bigdataoss.gcs.hadoop.one.version>
+    <bigdataoss.gcs.hadoop.two.version>1.5.2-hadoop2</bigdataoss.gcs.hadoop.two.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <google.api.version>1.20.0</google.api.version>
     <google.guava.version>18.0</google.guava.version>
diff --git a/util-hadoop/pom.xml b/util-hadoop/pom.xml
index 96d2868aaa..88fa494c31 100644
--- a/util-hadoop/pom.xml
+++ b/util-hadoop/pom.xml
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>bigdataoss-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <artifactId>util-hadoop-parent</artifactId>
-  <version>1.5.1</version>
+  <version>1.5.2</version>
 
   <profiles>
     <profile>
diff --git a/util-hadoop/util-hadoop-hadoop1.pom.xml b/util-hadoop/util-hadoop-hadoop1.pom.xml
index 2e4e79c3c0..fd92d1b6c1 100644
--- a/util-hadoop/util-hadoop-hadoop1.pom.xml
+++ b/util-hadoop/util-hadoop-hadoop1.pom.xml
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>util-hadoop-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <artifactId>util-hadoop</artifactId>
-  <version>1.5.1-hadoop1</version>
+  <version>1.5.2-hadoop1</version>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/util-hadoop/util-hadoop-hadoop2.pom.xml b/util-hadoop/util-hadoop-hadoop2.pom.xml
index 4cae5d78c0..e71d7e2548 100644
--- a/util-hadoop/util-hadoop-hadoop2.pom.xml
+++ b/util-hadoop/util-hadoop-hadoop2.pom.xml
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>util-hadoop-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <artifactId>util-hadoop</artifactId>
-  <version>1.5.1-hadoop2</version>
+  <version>1.5.2-hadoop2</version>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/util/pom.xml b/util/pom.xml
index 4b77e9a09c..c8d40f8610 100644
--- a/util/pom.xml
+++ b/util/pom.xml
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.bigdataoss</groupId>
     <artifactId>bigdataoss-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <version>1.5.2</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <artifactId>util</artifactId>
-  <version>1.5.1</version>
+  <version>1.5.2</version>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>