diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index cf6714675a6..289937dc885 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -313,4 +313,13 @@
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </reporting>
+
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>enable-samples</id>
+      <modules>
+        <module>samples</module>
+      </modules>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/samples/install-without-bom/pom.xml b/samples/install-without-bom/pom.xml
index 5cdb3854f6b..3ba3d5a0f06 100644
--- a/samples/install-without-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/install-without-bom/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-spanner</artifactId>
-      <version></version>
+      <version>1.52.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- [END spanner_install_without_bom] -->
 
diff --git a/samples/snapshot/pom.xml b/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
index 90183ebdae5..78846a22724 100644
--- a/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/snapshot/pom.xml
@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
   </properties>
 
-  <!-- {x-version-update-start::current} -->
   <dependencies>
+    <!-- {x-version-update-start:google-cloud-spanner:current} -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-spanner</artifactId>
-      <version></version>
+      <version>1.52.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </dependency>
+    <!-- {x-version-update-end} -->
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
@@ -44,7 +45,6 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
-  <!-- {x-version-update-end} -->
 
   <!-- compile and run all snippet tests -->
   <build>
diff --git a/samples/snippets/pom.xml b/samples/snippets/pom.xml
index 0e45c2f9c42..be3ea3c151d 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/snippets/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
-        <version></version>
+        <version>4.3.0</version>
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>import</scope>
       </dependency>