diff --git a/.kokoro/dependencies.sh b/.kokoro/dependencies.sh
index 9a5105d7e..d7476cfe9 100755
--- a/.kokoro/dependencies.sh
+++ b/.kokoro/dependencies.sh
@@ -38,15 +38,13 @@ function determineMavenOpts() {
       | sed -E 's/^(1\.[0-9]\.0).*$/\1/g'
   )
 
-  case $javaVersion in
-    "17")
+  if [[ $javaVersion == 17* ]]
+    then
       # MaxPermSize is no longer supported as of jdk 17
       echo -n "-Xmx1024m"
-      ;;
-    *)
+  else
       echo -n "-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"
-      ;;
-  esac
+  fi
 }
 
 export MAVEN_OPTS=$(determineMavenOpts)
diff --git a/synth.metadata b/synth.metadata
index e097c133f..fe6370dc1 100644
--- a/synth.metadata
+++ b/synth.metadata
@@ -4,22 +4,22 @@
       "git": {
         "name": ".",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigtable.git",
-        "sha": "8b120de58f0dfba3573ab696fb0e5375e917a00e"
+        "sha": "6e64e455180e0f51d2a189c750556708033b739f"
       }
     },
     {
       "git": {
         "name": "googleapis",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis.git",
-        "sha": "5f761138c64054797b7e25164798d573ff4c1c62",
-        "internalRef": "391576441"
+        "sha": "324f036d9dcc21318d89172ceaba5e0fd2377271",
+        "internalRef": "404267819"
       }
     },
     {
       "git": {
         "name": "synthtool",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/synthtool.git",
-        "sha": "a4be3384ccb92364795d981f2863f6986fcee620"
+        "sha": "cb2755306975de4c54ea549c9deb25703b3731bb"
       }
     }
   ],
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
     ".kokoro/presubmit/clirr.cfg",
     ".kokoro/presubmit/common.cfg",
     ".kokoro/presubmit/dependencies.cfg",
+    ".kokoro/presubmit/graalvm-native.cfg",
     ".kokoro/presubmit/java11.cfg",
     ".kokoro/presubmit/java7.cfg",
     ".kokoro/presubmit/java8-osx.cfg",