diff --git a/compute/compute/noxfile.py b/compute/compute/noxfile.py
index 85f5836dba3a..25f87a215d4c 100644
--- a/compute/compute/noxfile.py
+++ b/compute/compute/noxfile.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 # WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING
 # WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING
 
-BLACK_VERSION = "black==19.10b0"
+BLACK_VERSION = "black==22.3.0"
 
 # Copy `noxfile_config.py` to your directory and modify it instead.
 
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ def py(session: nox.sessions.Session) -> None:
 
 
 def _get_repo_root() -> Optional[str]:
-    """ Returns the root folder of the project. """
+    """Returns the root folder of the project."""
     # Get root of this repository. Assume we don't have directories nested deeper than 10 items.
     p = Path(os.getcwd())
     for i in range(10):
diff --git a/compute/compute/requirements.txt b/compute/compute/requirements.txt
index c0be0f7c63ca..a6a43c7f8284 100644
--- a/compute/compute/requirements.txt
+++ b/compute/compute/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 isort==5.10.1
-black==22.1.0
-google-cloud-compute==1.1.0
\ No newline at end of file
+black==22.3.0
+google-cloud-compute==1.1.0