diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index acbb5eb83..533db0ce8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -301,7 +301,6 @@ watchdog==2.1.9 \
     --hash=sha256:ed80a1628cee19f5cfc6bb74e173f1b4189eb532e705e2a13e3250312a62e0c9 \
     --hash=sha256:ee3e38a6cc050a8830089f79cbec8a3878ec2fe5160cdb2dc8ccb6def8552658
     # via -r requirements.in
-
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 setuptools==65.0.1 \
     --hash=sha256:7a2e7e95c3bf33f356b4c59aee7a6848585c4219dd3e941e43cc117888f210e4 \
diff --git a/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.kokoro/publish.sh b/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.kokoro/publish.sh
index 77a5defb2..949e3e1d0 100755
--- a/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.kokoro/publish.sh
+++ b/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.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/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.kokoro/release/docs.sh b/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
index 4c866c860..1d8f3f490 100755
--- a/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.kokoro/release/docs.sh
+++ b/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.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) \
diff --git a/synthtool/gcp/templates/python_notebooks_testing_pipeline/.cloud-build/requirements.txt b/synthtool/gcp/templates/python_notebooks_testing_pipeline/.cloud-build/requirements.txt
index 81e17f206..d74d95179 100644
--- a/synthtool/gcp/templates/python_notebooks_testing_pipeline/.cloud-build/requirements.txt
+++ b/synthtool/gcp/templates/python_notebooks_testing_pipeline/.cloud-build/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ipython==8.4.0
 jupyter==1.0
-nbconvert==6.5.3
+nbconvert==7.0.0
 papermill==2.4.0
 numpy==1.23.2
 pandas==1.4.3