diff --git a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
index a6d240b4f08..748836981e2 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: sha256:3f802f47bce31df4ee6b9513ca085a049347dba6837a4bdfa411b77ae0a9bc43
-# created: 2022-06-09T16:44:26.566602255Z
+  digest: sha256:bb493bf01d28519e82ab61c490c20122c85a7119c03a978ad0c34b4239fbad15
+# created: 2022-08-23T18:40:55.597313991Z
diff --git a/.kokoro/release/docs.sh b/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
index 4c866c86000..1d8f3f490a5 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) \