Merge branch 'main' into PR #2663 to update

Author: lqiu96

README.md

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ If you are using Maven without the BOM, add this to your dependencies:
 If you are using Gradle 5.x or later, add this to your dependencies:
 
 ```Groovy
-implementation platform('com.google.cloud:libraries-bom:26.76.0')
+implementation platform('com.google.cloud:libraries-bom:26.77.0')
 
 implementation 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigtable'
 ```

generation_config.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 gapic_generator_version: 2.67.0
-googleapis_commitish: d420134ab324c0cbe0f4ae06ad9697dac77f26ad
-libraries_bom_version: 26.76.0
+googleapis_commitish: 6df3ecf4fd43b64826de6a477d1a535ec18b0d7c
+libraries_bom_version: 26.77.0
 template_excludes:
   - .gitignore
   - .kokoro/presubmit/integration.cfg

google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml

@@ -206,13 +206,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>grpc-opentelemetry</artifactId>
-      <!-- TODO: remove this after next release (2.72.0). This is necessary to workaround a late downgrade of otel in cloud-shared-deps -->
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>io.opentelemetry</groupId>
-          <artifactId>opentelemetry-api</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.threeten</groupId>
@@ -306,27 +299,11 @@
       <groupId>com.google.truth</groupId>
       <artifactId>truth</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <!-- TODO: consider a different approach -->
-        <!-- exclude to resolve conflict with guava -->
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>checker-qual</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.truth.extensions</groupId>
       <artifactId>truth-proto-extension</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <!-- TODO: consider a different approach -->
-        <!-- exclude to resolve conflict with guava -->
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>checker-qual</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>