diff --git a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
index c612c534..74883698 100644
--- a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
+++ b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 docker:
   image: gcr.io/cloud-devrel-public-resources/owlbot-nodejs:latest
-  digest: sha256:079b0f3bd8427671745ec03a5179575b4c86a4e776fb6041427e553719c65c2b
-# created: 2022-05-10T15:57:49.166896548Z
+  digest: sha256:bb493bf01d28519e82ab61c490c20122c85a7119c03a978ad0c34b4239fbad15
+# created: 2022-08-23T18:40:55.597313991Z
diff --git a/.kokoro/publish.sh b/.kokoro/publish.sh
index 77a5defb..949e3e1d 100755
--- a/.kokoro/publish.sh
+++ b/.kokoro/publish.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ set -eo pipefail
 export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=${HOME}/.npm-global
 
 # Start the releasetool reporter
-python3 -m pip install gcp-releasetool
 python3 -m releasetool publish-reporter-script > /tmp/publisher-script; source /tmp/publisher-script
 
 cd $(dirname $0)/..
diff --git a/.kokoro/release/docs.sh b/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
index 4c866c86..1d8f3f49 100755
--- a/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
+++ b/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ npm run docs
 
 # create docs.metadata, based on package.json and .repo-metadata.json.
 npm i json@9.0.6 -g
-python3 -m pip install --user gcp-docuploader
 python3 -m docuploader create-metadata \
   --name=$(cat .repo-metadata.json | json name) \
   --version=$(cat package.json | json version) \