diff --git a/java-workflows/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/java-workflows/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
index dc53bbb57be5..0df65ebe91a6 100644
--- a/java-workflows/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
+++ b/java-workflows/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 docker:
   image: gcr.io/cloud-devrel-public-resources/owlbot-java:latest
-  digest: sha256:d4b2141d65566523dfd523f63c6e6899ab1281463bce182a9f600e74b0511875
+  digest: sha256:a3ac08d167454718ff057b97a1950d3cb5e16fc39fb3f355d90276285a6cac75
diff --git a/java-workflows/.kokoro/dependencies.sh b/java-workflows/.kokoro/dependencies.sh
index 9a5105d7ebf4..d7476cfe9727 100755
--- a/java-workflows/.kokoro/dependencies.sh
+++ b/java-workflows/.kokoro/dependencies.sh
@@ -38,15 +38,13 @@ function determineMavenOpts() {
       | sed -E 's/^(1\.[0-9]\.0).*$/\1/g'
   )
 
-  case $javaVersion in
-    "17")
+  if [[ $javaVersion == 17* ]]
+    then
       # MaxPermSize is no longer supported as of jdk 17
       echo -n "-Xmx1024m"
-      ;;
-    *)
+  else
       echo -n "-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"
-      ;;
-  esac
+  fi
 }
 
 export MAVEN_OPTS=$(determineMavenOpts)