diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 552975c72..163638505 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ artifacts: kustomize
 	@$(call clean-manifests)
 
 .PHONY: release
-release: artifacts release-quickstart verify test # Create a release.
+release: artifacts release-quickstart api-ref-docs apix-ref-docs verify test # Create a release.
 
 ##@ Dependencies
 
diff --git a/hack/release-quickstart.sh b/hack/release-quickstart.sh
index 22c705184..de02f29c4 100755
--- a/hack/release-quickstart.sh
+++ b/hack/release-quickstart.sh
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ fi
 
 # The vLLM image versions
 # The GPU image is from https://hub.docker.com/r/vllm/vllm-openai/tags
-VLLM_GPU="${VLLM_GPU:-0.10.0}"
+VLLM_GPU="${VLLM_GPU:-0.8.5}"
 # The CPU image is from https://gallery.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo
-VLLM_CPU="${VLLM_CPU:-0.10.0}"
+VLLM_CPU="${VLLM_CPU:-0.8.5}"
 # The sim image is from https://github.com/llm-d/llm-d-inference-sim/pkgs/container/llm-d-inference-sim
-VLLM_SIM="${VLLM_SIM:-0.3.2-fix}"
+VLLM_SIM="${VLLM_SIM:-0.4.0}"
 
 echo "Using release tag: ${RELEASE_TAG}"
 echo "Using vLLM GPU image version: ${VLLM_GPU}"