From 6d8bb7ec3235a3219bc421ac35e64cbb16c08cc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Dietz <ndietz@google.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:31:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore: move preview package releases

---
 .github/release-please.yml               |  6 ++++++
 .release-please-individual-manifest.json |  3 +--
 .release-please-preview-manifest.json    |  3 +++
 release-please-individual-config.json    | 16 ----------------
 release-please-preview-config.json       | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .release-please-preview-manifest.json
 create mode 100644 release-please-preview-config.json

diff --git a/.github/release-please.yml b/.github/release-please.yml
index 2505abb289e8..ad6bf47dacd3 100644
--- a/.github/release-please.yml
+++ b/.github/release-please.yml
@@ -15,3 +15,9 @@ branches:
     manifest: true
     manifestFile: .release-please-individual-manifest.json
     manifestConfig: release-please-individual-config.json
+  - branch: main
+    handleGHRelease: true
+    tagPullRequestNumber: true
+    manifest: true
+    manifestFile: .release-please-preview-manifest.json
+    manifestConfig: release-please-preview-config.json
diff --git a/.release-please-individual-manifest.json b/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
index 32f2be1a9e74..aa7d3328f7bb 100644
--- a/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
@@ -18,6 +18,5 @@
   "packages/google-crc32c": "1.9.0",
   "packages/pandas-gbq": "0.35.3",
   "packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery": "1.17.3",
-  "packages/sqlalchemy-spanner": "1.20.1",
-  "preview-packages/google-cloud-compute": "1.56.0-preview.1"
+  "packages/sqlalchemy-spanner": "1.20.1"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.release-please-preview-manifest.json b/.release-please-preview-manifest.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b5f70afe759a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-please-preview-manifest.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "preview-packages/google-cloud-compute": "1.56.0-preview.1"
+}
diff --git a/release-please-individual-config.json b/release-please-individual-config.json
index e1d154ffb3b0..5fcb61cf85df 100644
--- a/release-please-individual-config.json
+++ b/release-please-individual-config.json
@@ -192,22 +192,6 @@
     },
     "packages/sqlalchemy-spanner": {
       "component": "sqlalchemy-spanner"
-    },
-    "preview-packages/google-cloud-compute": {
-      "draft-pull-request": true,
-      "extra-files": [
-        "google/cloud/compute/gapic_version.py",
-        "google/cloud/compute_v1/gapic_version.py",
-        {
-          "jsonpath": "$.clientLibrary.version",
-          "path": "samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.cloud.compute.v1.json",
-          "type": "json"
-        }
-      ],
-      "package-name": "google-cloud-compute",
-      "prerelease": true,
-      "prerelease-type": "preview",
-      "versioning": "prerelease"
     }
   },
   "release-type": "python-librarian",
diff --git a/release-please-preview-config.json b/release-please-preview-config.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9aa6e0afb7d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-please-preview-config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{
+  "bump-minor-pre-major": true,
+  "bump-patch-for-minor-pre-major": true,
+  "packages": {
+    "preview-packages/google-cloud-compute": {
+      "draft-pull-request": true,
+      "extra-files": [
+        "google/cloud/compute/gapic_version.py",
+        "google/cloud/compute_v1/gapic_version.py",
+        {
+          "jsonpath": "$.clientLibrary.version",
+          "path": "samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.cloud.compute.v1.json",
+          "type": "json"
+        }
+      ],
+      "package-name": "google-cloud-compute",
+      "prerelease": true,
+      "prerelease-type": "preview",
+      "versioning": "prerelease"
+    }
+  },
+  "release-type": "python-librarian",
+  "separate-pull-requests": true
+}

From 8a7e7788278600553d41c5caff8abef5771066bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Dietz <ndietz@google.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:36:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore: carry over preview bump

---
 .release-please-preview-manifest.json | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-preview-manifest.json b/.release-please-preview-manifest.json
index b5f70afe759a..4e9d97291c1b 100644
--- a/.release-please-preview-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-preview-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "preview-packages/google-cloud-compute": "1.56.0-preview.1"
+  "preview-packages/google-cloud-compute": "1.56.0-preview.2"
 }