diff --git a/.kokoro/release/publish-single.sh b/.kokoro/release/publish-single.sh
index 062025d5f462..b6d846b52bb5 100755
--- a/.kokoro/release/publish-single.sh
+++ b/.kokoro/release/publish-single.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ set -eo pipefail
 pwd
 
 npm install
+npm pack .
+# npm provides no way to specify, observe, or predict the name of the tarball
+# file it generates.  We have to look in the current directory for the freshest
+# .tgz file.
+TARBALL=$(ls -1 -t *.tgz | head -1)
 
-# publish library to npm
-npm publish --access=public --registry=https://wombat-dressing-room.appspot.com
+# publish library to npm.
+npm publish --access=public --registry=https://wombat-dressing-room.appspot.com "$TARBALL" 
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-dataform/samples/package.json b/packages/google-cloud-dataform/samples/package.json
index a5a0042d896c..be75b9aaa757 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-dataform/samples/package.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-dataform/samples/package.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     "test": "c8 mocha --timeout 600000 test/*.js"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@google-cloud/dataform": "^1.0.0"
+    "@google-cloud/dataform": "^0.4.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "c8": "^7.1.0",