diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/release-docs.yml
index ac57033626..1334dd9ec0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-docs.yml
@@ -15,17 +15,16 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build River
         uses: ./.github/actions/install-env
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.12"
 
       - name: Install extra Ubuntu dependencies
         run: sudo apt-get install graphviz pandoc
 
       - name: Install extra Python dependencies
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          poetry install --with compat --with docs
-          pip install rich
-          python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
+          poetry install --with docs --with compat
+          poetry install rich
+          poetry run python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
 
       - name: Use Rich in notebooks
         run: |
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4c4f669477..0db8a679d3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ optional = true
 [tool.poetry.group.compat.dependencies]
 scikit-learn = "^1.0.1"
 sqlalchemy = "^2.0.0"
-vaex = "^4.0.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.docs]
 optional = true