diff --git a/RELEASE_MANAGEMENT.md b/RELEASE_MANAGEMENT.md
index 0b2844e477..4621ec528f 100644
--- a/RELEASE_MANAGEMENT.md
+++ b/RELEASE_MANAGEMENT.md
@@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ git rebase upstream/main
 git push --force-with-lease
 git checkout -b release-v1.1.3
 yarn run configure
-yarn lerna version 1.1.3 --ignore-scripts --conventional-commits --exact --git-remote upstream --message="chore(release): publish %s" --no-push --no-git-tag-version --no-ignore-changes --force-publish
-yarn tools:bump-openapi-spec-dep-versions
+yarn lerna version 1.1.3 --ignore-scripts --conventional-commits --exact --git-remote upstream --message="chore(release): publish %s" --no-push --no-git-tag-version --no-ignore-changes
+yarn tools:bump-openapi-spec-dep-versions --target-version=1.1.3
 yarn codegen
+yarn build:dev
 ./tools/weaver-update-version.sh 1.1.3 .
 ./tools/go-gen-checksum.sh 1.1.3 .
 ```
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 021096ed70..e771c47e7c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     "lint": "yarn run format && yarn run spellcheck",
     "format": "eslint '**/*.{js,ts}' --quiet --fix",
     "spellcheck": "cspell lint --no-progress \"*/*/src/**/*.{js,ts}\"",
-    "tsc": "tsc --build --verbose",
+    "tsc": "NODE_OPTIONS=\"--max_old_space_size=3072\" tsc --build --verbose",
     "codegen": "run-s 'codegen:warmup-*' codegen:lerna codegen:cleanup",
     "codegen:cleanup": "rm --force --verbose ./openapitools.json",
     "codegen:lerna": "lerna run codegen",
diff --git a/tools/bump-openapi-spec-dep-versions.ts b/tools/bump-openapi-spec-dep-versions.ts
index 6baf9b1055..5cdf59cb41 100644
--- a/tools/bump-openapi-spec-dep-versions.ts
+++ b/tools/bump-openapi-spec-dep-versions.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { URL } from "url";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
 import path from "path";
 import yargs from "yargs";
@@ -8,10 +7,7 @@ import { globby, Options as GlobbyOptions } from "globby";
 import { RuntimeError } from "run-time-error";
 import prettier from "prettier";
 import { OpenAPIV3_1 } from "openapi-types";
-import { isValidSemVer } from "semver-parser";
-import fastSafeStringify from "fast-safe-stringify";
 
-import { hasKey } from "./has-key";
 import { getLatestSemVerGitTagV1 } from "./get-latest-sem-ver-git-tag";
 
 const TAG = "[tools/bump-openapi-spec-dep-versions.ts]";
@@ -99,67 +95,6 @@ async function createRequest(
   return req;
 }
 
-function traversePojoRefs(
-  file: string,
-  newVersion: string,
-  pojo: unknown,
-  replacements: ISpecRefReplacementV1[],
-  propPartPaths: string[],
-): ISpecRefReplacementV1[] {
-  if (!pojo || typeof pojo !== "object") {
-    throw new RuntimeError(`Expected "pojo" as a Plain Old Javascript Object`);
-  }
-  Object.entries(pojo).forEach(([key, oldVal]: [string, unknown]) => {
-    if (!oldVal) {
-      return;
-    } else if (typeof oldVal === "object") {
-      propPartPaths.push(key);
-      traversePojoRefs(file, newVersion, oldVal, replacements, propPartPaths);
-      propPartPaths.pop();
-    } else if (key === "$ref") {
-      if (typeof oldVal !== "string") {
-        throw new RuntimeError(`Expected string value for $ref in ${file}`);
-      }
-      if (oldVal.startsWith("#")) {
-        // skip references that are local, e.g. pointint go a schema component
-        // within the same openapi.json specification file because these are
-        // not going to have a git tag in their URLs (because they aren't URLs)
-        return;
-      }
-      if (!hasKey(pojo, "$ref")) {
-        throw new RuntimeError(`Expected pojo to have a "$pref" property.`);
-      }
-
-      const aUrl = tryParseUrl(oldVal);
-      const urlPathParts = aUrl.pathname.split("/");
-
-      let dirty = false;
-
-      urlPathParts.forEach((x, idx) => {
-        if (isValidSemVer(x) && x !== newVersion) {
-          dirty = true;
-          urlPathParts[idx] = newVersion;
-          console.log(`${TAG} ${file} Swapping "${x}" to "${newVersion}"`);
-        }
-      });
-
-      if (dirty) {
-        aUrl.pathname = urlPathParts.join("/");
-        const newValue = aUrl.toString();
-        console.log(`${TAG} ${file} Swapping "${oldVal}" to "${newValue}"`);
-        pojo[key] = newValue;
-        const propertyPath = ".".concat(propPartPaths.join("."));
-        replacements.push({
-          newValue,
-          oldValue: oldVal,
-          propertyPath,
-        });
-      }
-    }
-  });
-  return replacements;
-}
-
 async function bumpOpenApiSpecDepVersionsOneFile(
   filePathAbs: string,
   filePathRel: string,
@@ -176,13 +111,7 @@ async function bumpOpenApiSpecDepVersionsOneFile(
     openApiJson.info = { title: filePathRel, version: "0.0.0" };
   }
 
-  const replacements = traversePojoRefs(
-    filePathRel,
-    newVersion,
-    openApiJson,
-    [],
-    [],
-  );
+  const replacements = [];
 
   if (openApiJson.info.version !== newVersion) {
     const oldVersion = openApiJson.info.version;
@@ -217,24 +146,6 @@ async function bumpOpenApiSpecDepVersionsOneFile(
   return replacements;
 }
 
-function tryParseUrl(x: unknown): URL {
-  if (typeof x !== "string") {
-    throw new RuntimeError(`${TAG} tryParseUrl() expected string input.`);
-  }
-  try {
-    return new URL(x);
-  } catch (ex) {
-    console.error(`${TAG} parsing failed for ${x}`, ex);
-    let innerEx;
-    if (ex instanceof Error || typeof ex === "string") {
-      innerEx = ex;
-    } else {
-      innerEx = fastSafeStringify(ex);
-    }
-    throw new RuntimeError(`${TAG} parsing failed for ${x}`, innerEx);
-  }
-}
-
 export async function bumpOpenApiSpecDepVersions(
   req: IBumpOpenAPISpecDepVersionsV1Request,
 ): Promise<IBumpOpenAPISpecDepVersionsV1Response> {
@@ -260,7 +171,7 @@ export async function bumpOpenApiSpecDepVersions(
     ignore: ["**/node_modules"],
   };
 
-  const DEFAULT_GLOB = "**/src/main/json/openapi.json";
+  const DEFAULT_GLOB = "**/src/main/json/openapi.tpl.json";
 
   const oasPaths = await globby(DEFAULT_GLOB, globbyOpts);