diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-google-auth/template b/srcpkgs/python3-google-auth/template
index 825f594e836..8b2c10cdbcd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-google-auth/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-google-auth/template
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 # Template file for 'python3-google-auth'
 pkgname=python3-google-auth
-version=2.15.0
+version=2.16.2
 revision=1
 build_style=python3-module
-make_check_args="--ignore=tests/oauth2/test_challenges.py"
+# upstream restricts python3-cryptography to lower versions
+# for tests; causing them to fail with the version in repo
+make_check_args="--ignore=tests/oauth2/test_challenges.py
+ --ignore=tests/transport/test__custom_tls_signer.py
+ --ignore=tests/transport/test_requests.py
+ --ignore=tests/transport/test_urllib3.py"
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
 depends="python3-pyasn1-modules python3-rsa python3-six python3-cachetools"
 checkdepends="${depends} python3-Flask python3-freezegun python3-mock python3-oauth2client
@@ -15,4 +20,4 @@ license="Apache-2.0"
 homepage="https://googleapis.dev/python/google-auth/latest/index.html"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-python/main/CHANGELOG.md"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/g/google-auth/google-auth-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=72f12a6cfc968d754d7bdab369c5c5c16032106e52d32c6dfd8484e4c01a6d1f
+checksum=07e14f34ec288e3f33e00e2e3cc40c8942aa5d4ceac06256a28cd8e786591420