diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6af1d86..eb50990 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@
 
 [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@google/repo?activeTab=versions
 
+## [6.1.1](https://github.com/googleapis/github-repo-automation/compare/v6.1.0...v6.1.1) (2022-09-14)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **deps:** Update dependency async-mutex to ^0.4.0 ([#617](https://github.com/googleapis/github-repo-automation/issues/617)) ([fb7c7a8](https://github.com/googleapis/github-repo-automation/commit/fb7c7a8b772891c2b2d3e80157d54cbbbf72b8b5))
+* Remove update-notifier ([#618](https://github.com/googleapis/github-repo-automation/issues/618)) ([ae9be5d](https://github.com/googleapis/github-repo-automation/commit/ae9be5d7cb03adbfbe1846c13725b2ab1ee0f7a6))
+
 ## [6.1.0](https://github.com/googleapis/github-repo-automation/compare/v6.0.0...v6.1.0) (2022-08-29)
 
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ec77be5..b4d4264 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@google/repo",
-  "version": "6.1.0",
+  "version": "6.1.1",
   "repository": "googleapis/github-repo-automation",
   "description": "A tool for automating multiple GitHub repositories.",
   "engines": {
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@types/command-line-usage": "^5.0.2",
     "@types/tmp": "^0.2.3",
-    "async-mutex": "^0.3.2",
+    "async-mutex": "^0.4.0",
     "chalk": "^5.0.1",
     "command-line-usage": "^6.1.3",
     "extend": "^3.0.2",
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@
     "p-queue": "^7.2.0",
     "text-encoding-shim": "^1.0.5",
     "tmp-promise": "^3.0.3",
-    "tweetsodium": "0.0.5",
-    "update-notifier": "^6.0.2"
+    "tweetsodium": "0.0.5"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@compodoc/compodoc": "^1.1.19",
@@ -40,7 +39,6 @@
     "@types/node": "^18.6.1",
     "@types/proxyquire": "^1.3.28",
     "@types/sinon": "^10.0.13",
-    "@types/update-notifier": "^6.0.1",
     "c8": "^7.12.0",
     "gts": "^3.1.0",
     "linkinator": "^4.0.2",
diff --git a/samples/package.json b/samples/package.json
index bfc2a7d..008c36d 100644
--- a/samples/package.json
+++ b/samples/package.json
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     "test": "mocha system-test"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@google/repo": "^6.1.0"
+    "@google/repo": "^6.1.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "mocha": "^8.0.0"
diff --git a/src/cli.ts b/src/cli.ts
index 9f5da7c..1c8e6d6 100644
--- a/src/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli.ts
@@ -25,19 +25,8 @@ import {merge} from './merge-prs.js';
 import {main as check} from './repo-check.js';
 import {sync, exec} from './sync.js';
 import meow from 'meow';
-import updateNotifier from 'update-notifier';
 import {tag} from './tag-prs.js';
 import {untag} from './untag-prs.js';
-import * as fs from 'fs';
-import * as path from 'path';
-import {fileURLToPath} from 'url';
-
-const filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
-const dirname = path.dirname(filename);
-const pkg = JSON.parse(
-  fs.readFileSync(path.join(dirname, '..', '..', 'package.json')).toString()
-);
-updateNotifier({pkg}).notify();
 
 const cli = meow(
   `