chore(main): release google-cloud-bigquery 3.42.4

Author: release-please[bot]

.release-please-individual-manifest.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "packages/bigframes": "2.47.0",
-  "packages/google-cloud-bigquery": "3.42.3",
+  "packages/google-cloud-bigquery": "3.42.4",
   "packages/google-crc32c": "1.8.0",
   "packages/pandas-gbq": "0.35.0"
 }

librarian.yaml

@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ libraries:
     python:
       default_version: v1beta
   - name: google-cloud-bigquery
-    version: 3.42.3
+    version: 3.42.4
     python:
       library_type: GAPIC_COMBO
       metadata_name_override: bigquery

packages/google-cloud-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-bigquery/#history
 
+## [3.42.4](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/google-cloud-bigquery-v3.42.3...google-cloud-bigquery-v3.42.4) (2026-08-04)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **bigquery:** Fix bigquery socket leak ([#17953](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/17953)) ([8c26b38](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/8c26b38a7ab4b5c543f479705c4a231fffffcfcc))
+
 ## [3.42.3](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/google-cloud-bigquery-v3.42.2...google-cloud-bigquery-v3.42.3) (2026-07-30)
 
 

packages/google-cloud-bigquery/google/cloud/bigquery/version.py

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-__version__ = "3.42.3"
+__version__ = "3.42.4"