12-10-2018 13:10 PST

- Add PingingPool and TransactionPingingPool to toplevel module ([#6886](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6886))

- Add `operation_id` parameter to `Database.update_ddl`. ([#6825](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6825))

- Pick up changes to GAPIC method configuration ([#6615](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6615))

- Add timeout + retry settings to Sessions/Snapshots ([#6536](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6536))

- Pick up fixes to GAPIC generator. ([#6576](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6576))

- Update dependency to google-cloud-core ([#6835](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6835))

- Add baseline for synth.metadata

- Blacken. ([#6846](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6846))

- Update noxfile.

- Blacken all gen'd libs ([#6792](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6792))

- Omit local deps ([#6701](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6701))

- Run black at end of synth.py ([#6698](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6698))

- Run Black on Generated libraries ([#6666](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6666))

- Add templates for flake8, coveragerc, noxfile, and black. ([#6642](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6642))

- Add tags to DML system tests ([#6580](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/6580))

version = '1.7.0'