diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 8f46ddb1..f2e66141 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 *   Introduced `ParquetTFXIO` that allows reading data from Parquet files in
     `pyarrow.RecordBatch` format.
 *   From this version we will be releasing python 3.9 wheels.
+*   Depends on `apache-beam[gcp]>=2.38,<3`.
 
 ## Bug Fixes and Other Changes
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 86a7a583..f080b919 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def select_constraint(default, nightly=None, git_master=None):
     # six, and protobuf) with TF.
     install_requires=[
         'absl-py>=0.9,<2.0.0',
-        'apache-beam[gcp]>=2.36,<3',
+        'apache-beam[gcp]>=2.38,<3',
         'google-api-python-client>=1.7.11,<2',
         'numpy>=1.16,<2',
         'pandas>=1.0,<2',