diff --git a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/RELEASE.md b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/RELEASE.md
index 24117f84e44e..7ff2862c172e 100644
--- a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/RELEASE.md
+++ b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/RELEASE.md
@@ -68,45 +68,46 @@ for component in recommender updater admission-controller ; do TAG=`grep 'const
 1.  [ ] Create a Kubernetes cluster. If you're using GKE you can use the following command:
 
     ```shell
-    $ gcloud container clusters create e2e-test --machine-type=n1-standard-2 --image-type=COS_CONTAINERD --num-nodes=3
+    gcloud container clusters create e2e-test --machine-type=n1-standard-2 --image-type=COS_CONTAINERD --num-nodes=3
     ```
 
 1. [ ]  Create clusterrole. If you're using GKE you can use the following command:
 
     ```shell
-    $ kubectl create clusterrolebinding my-cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=`gcloud config get-value account`
+    kubectl create clusterrolebinding my-cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=`gcloud config get-value account`
     ```
 
 1.  [ ] Deploy VPA:
     ```shell
-    $ REGISTRY=gcr.io/k8s-staging-autoscaling TAG=[*vpa-version*] ./hack/vpa-up.sh
+    REGISTRY=gcr.io/k8s-staging-autoscaling TAG=`grep 'const VerticalPodAutoscalerVersion = ' common/version.go | cut -d '"' -f 2` ./hack/vpa-up.sh
     ```
 
 1.  [ ] [Run](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler/hack/run-e2e-tests.sh)
     the `full-vpa` test suite:
 
     ```shell
-    $ ./hack/run-e2e-tests.sh full-vpa
+    ./hack/run-e2e-tests.sh full-vpa
     ```
 
 ## Promote image
 
 To promote image from staging repo send out PR updating
-[autoscaling images mapping](https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/blob/master/k8s.gcr.io/images/k8s-staging-autoscaling/images.yaml)
+[autoscaling images mapping](https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/blob/master/registry.k8s.io/images/k8s-staging-autoscaling/images.yaml)
 ([example](https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/pull/1318)).
 
+NOTE: Please use the [add-version.sh
+script](https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/blob/main/registry.k8s.io/images/k8s-staging-autoscaling/add-version.sh)
+to prepare the changes automatically.
+
 When PR merges the promoter will run automatically and upload the image from
 staging repo to final repo. The post submit job status can be tracked on
 [testgrid](https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-k8s-infra-k8sio#post-k8sio-image-promo).
 To verify if the promoter finished its job one can use gcloud. E.g.:
 
 ```sh
-$ gcloud container images describe us.gcr.io/k8s-artifacts-prod/autoscaling/vpa-recommender:[*vpa-version*]
+gcloud container images describe registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-recommender:[*vpa-version*]
 ```
 
-You can also take a look at the images in the
-[k8s-artifacts repo](https://us.gcr.io/k8s-artifacts-prod/autoscaling/).
-
 ## Finalize release
 
 NOTE: We currently use two tags for releases:
@@ -145,7 +146,7 @@ sure nothing we care about will break if we do.
 
 1.  [ ] To create and publish a github release from pushed tag go to
     https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/vertical-pod-autoscaler-[*vpa-version*],
-    press `Edit release`, complete release title and release notes, tick the
+    press `Create release from tag`, complete release title and release notes, tick the
     `This is a pre-release` box and press `Publish release`.
 
 ## Permissions