diff --git a/packages/spanner/package.json b/packages/spanner/package.json
index 36480242e09..745858dbdb6 100644
--- a/packages/spanner/package.json
+++ b/packages/spanner/package.json
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
     "spanner"
   ],
   "dependencies": {
-    "@google-cloud/common": "^0.13.0",
-    "@google-cloud/common-grpc": "^0.4.0",
+    "@google-cloud/common": "^0.16.0",
+    "@google-cloud/common-grpc": "^0.5.5",
     "array-uniq": "^1.0.3",
     "arrify": "^1.0.1",
     "checkpoint-stream": "^0.1.0",