diff --git a/google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1/pom.xml b/google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1/pom.xml
index d03456144435..17da9b8491d3 100644
--- a/google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1/pom.xml
+++ b/google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1</artifactId>
-  <version>0.81.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1:current} -->
+  <version>0.81.0</version>
   <name>grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1</name>
   <description>GRPC library for grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1</description>
   <parent>
@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <!-- skip deployment until we fully migrate to https://github.com/googleapis/java-kms -->
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.8.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.6.8</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>true</skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
diff --git a/google-api-grpc/pom.xml b/google-api-grpc/pom.xml
index d114f99d1198..af6c019be720 100644
--- a/google-api-grpc/pom.xml
+++ b/google-api-grpc/pom.xml
@@ -366,12 +366,12 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-kms-v1</artifactId>
-        <version>0.81.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-kms-v1:current} -->
+        <version>0.81.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1</artifactId>
-        <version>0.81.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1:current} -->
+        <version>0.81.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
diff --git a/google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-kms-v1/pom.xml b/google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-kms-v1/pom.xml
index da6ca8425b48..d47531fc5f2e 100644
--- a/google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-kms-v1/pom.xml
+++ b/google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-kms-v1/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-kms-v1</artifactId>
-  <version>0.81.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-kms-v1:current} -->
+  <version>0.81.0</version>
   <name>proto-google-cloud-kms-v1</name>
   <description>PROTO library for proto-google-cloud-kms-v1</description>
   <parent>
@@ -33,4 +33,25 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <!-- skip deployment until we fully migrate to https://github.com/googleapis/java-kms -->
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.8.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.6.8</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>true</skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
index 0bf9157f566b..046374e9b6d8 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
@@ -469,17 +469,17 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-kms</artifactId>
-        <version>1.34.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-kms:current} -->
+        <version>1.34.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-kms-v1</artifactId>
-        <version>0.81.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:proto-google-cloud-kms-v1:current} -->
+        <version>0.81.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
         <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1</artifactId>
-        <version>0.81.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1:current} -->
+        <version>0.81.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/.repo-metadata.json b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/.repo-metadata.json
deleted file mode 100644
index ecfa97b2d337..000000000000
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/.repo-metadata.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "cloudkms",
-  "name_pretty": "Google Cloud Key Management Service",
-  "product_documentation": "https://cloud.google.com/kms",
-  "client_documentation": "https://googleapis.dev/java/google-cloud-clients/latest/index.html?com/google/cloud/kms/v1/package-summary.html",
-  "issue_tracker": "https://issuetracker.google.com/savedsearches/5264932",
-  "release_level": "ga",
-  "repo": "googleapis/google-cloud-java",
-  "repo_short": "google-cloud-java",
-  "distribution_name": "com.google.cloud:google-cloud-kms",
-  "api_id": "cloudkms.googleapis.com"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/README.md b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/README.md
index 0b43cdb05911..732c76723394 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/README.md
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Java idiomatic client for [Cloud KMS][cloud-kms].
 Quickstart
 ----------
 
-[//]: # ({x-version-update-start:google-cloud-kms:released})
 If you are using Maven, add this to your pom.xml file
 ```xml
 <dependency>
@@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies
 ```Scala
 libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-kms" % "1.34.0"
 ```
-[//]: # ({x-version-update-end})
 
 Authentication
 --------------
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/pom.xml
index 8c1a0979bb87..8aa49af9873e 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>google-cloud-kms</artifactId>
-  <version>1.34.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-kms:current} -->
+  <version>1.34.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>Google Cloud KMS</name>
   <url>https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/master/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms</url>
@@ -51,7 +51,27 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
-
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <!-- skip deployment until we fully migrate to https://github.com/googleapis/java-kms -->
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.8.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.6.8</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>true</skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/synth.metadata b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/synth.metadata
deleted file mode 100644
index f42bd83e969c..000000000000
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/synth.metadata
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "updateTime": "2019-08-14T07:49:37.087399Z",
-  "sources": [
-    {
-      "generator": {
-        "name": "artman",
-        "version": "0.33.0",
-        "dockerImage": "googleapis/artman@sha256:c6231efb525569736226b1f7af7565dbc84248efafb3692a5bb1d2d8a7975d53"
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "git": {
-        "name": "googleapis",
-        "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis.git",
-        "sha": "3406d1e899f1f41123b3fa9210ad4bef25c9a720",
-        "internalRef": "263234709"
-      }
-    }
-  ],
-  "destinations": [
-    {
-      "client": {
-        "source": "googleapis",
-        "apiName": "kms",
-        "apiVersion": "v1",
-        "language": "java",
-        "generator": "gapic",
-        "config": "google/cloud/kms/artman_cloudkms.yaml"
-      }
-    }
-  ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/synth.py b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/synth.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 7943003f99a1..000000000000
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-kms/synth.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2018 Google LLC
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-"""This script is used to synthesize generated parts of this library."""
-
-import synthtool as s
-import synthtool.gcp as gcp
-import synthtool.languages.java as java
-
-gapic = gcp.GAPICGenerator()
-
-service = 'kms'
-versions = ['v1']
-config_pattern = '/google/cloud/kms/artman_cloudkms.yaml'
-
-for version in versions:
-  library = gapic.java_library(
-      service=service,
-      version=version,
-      config_path=config_pattern.format(version=version),
-      artman_output_name='')
-
-  s.copy(library / f'gapic-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src', 'src')
-  s.copy(library / f'grpc-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src', f'../../google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src')
-  s.copy(library / f'proto-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src', f'../../google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src')
-
-  java.format_code('./src')
-  java.format_code(f'../../google-api-grpc/grpc-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src')
-  java.format_code(f'../../google-api-grpc/proto-google-cloud-{service}-{version}/src')
diff --git a/versions.txt b/versions.txt
index 1d7dac05ad84..a368013f88ce 100644
--- a/versions.txt
+++ b/versions.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ google-cloud-errorreporting:0.116.0-beta:0.116.1-beta-SNAPSHOT
 google-cloud-examples:0.116.0-alpha:0.116.1-alpha-SNAPSHOT
 google-cloud-firestore:1.28.0:1.28.1-SNAPSHOT
 google-cloud-gcloud-maven-plugin:0.116.0-alpha:0.116.1-alpha-SNAPSHOT
-google-cloud-kms:1.34.0:1.34.1-SNAPSHOT
 google-cloud-logging:1.98.0:1.98.1-SNAPSHOT
 google-cloud-logging-logback:0.116.0-alpha:0.116.1-alpha-SNAPSHOT
 google-cloud-managedtest:0.116.0-alpha:0.116.1-alpha-SNAPSHOT
@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@ grpc-google-cloud-error-reporting-v1beta1:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
 grpc-google-cloud-firestore-admin-v1:1.28.0:1.28.1-SNAPSHOT
 grpc-google-cloud-firestore-v1:1.28.0:1.28.1-SNAPSHOT
 grpc-google-cloud-firestore-v1beta1:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
-grpc-google-cloud-kms-v1:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
 grpc-google-cloud-logging-v2:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
 grpc-google-cloud-monitoring-v3:1.80.0:1.80.1-SNAPSHOT
 grpc-google-cloud-os-login-v1:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
@@ -82,7 +80,6 @@ proto-google-cloud-error-reporting-v1beta1:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
 proto-google-cloud-firestore-admin-v1:1.28.0:1.28.1-SNAPSHOT
 proto-google-cloud-firestore-v1:1.28.0:1.28.1-SNAPSHOT
 proto-google-cloud-firestore-v1beta1:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
-proto-google-cloud-kms-v1:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
 proto-google-cloud-logging-v2:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
 proto-google-cloud-monitoring-v3:1.80.0:1.80.1-SNAPSHOT
 proto-google-cloud-os-login-v1:0.81.0:0.81.1-SNAPSHOT
