diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 98213a46327..44a6a3c9a7a 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ version: 2.1
 jobs:
   publish:
     docker:
-      - image: oryd/sdk:v0.0.52
+      - image: oryd/sdk:v0.0.53
     working_directory: /sdk
     steps:
       - checkout
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9379e8952d4..d12cc94a1dc 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -56,9 +56,13 @@ RUN mkdir -p "$GOPATH/src" "$GOPATH/bin" && chmod -R 777 "$GOPATH"
 RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | bash - && apt-get install -y nodejs
 # the following is a workaround for openjdk-11-jre-headless erroring due to not having a man path in slim-debian
 RUN apt-get update -y
-RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends python3 python3-dev python3-pip ruby jq gnupg git gettext libffi-dev libssl-dev php composer php-curl php-dom php-xml php-simplexml php-xmlwriter maven pkg-config twine
+RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends python3 python3-dev python3-pip ruby jq gnupg git gettext libffi-dev libssl-dev php composer php-curl php-dom php-xml php-simplexml php-xmlwriter maven pkg-config twine sudo apt-transport-https
 # RUN apk add -U --no-cache ca-certificates bash nodejs npm python3 python3-dev py-pip ruby jq build-base gnupg git openssh curl gettext libffi libffi-dev openssl-dev php composer php-curl php7-tokenizer wget php-dom php-xml php-simplexml php-xmlwriter maven
 
+RUN curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg
+RUN echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
+RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-cli
+
 # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35736598/cannot-pip-install-cryptography-in-docker-alpine-linux-3-3-with-openssl-1-0-2g
 #RUN apk add --no-cache \
 #        libressl-dev \
@@ -124,4 +128,3 @@ RUN go build -o /usr/local/bin/ory github.com/ory/cli
 
 RUN swagger version
 RUN ory version
-
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b9b2da3362e..85768320090 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ You may also manually build and publish this image using:
 
 ```shell script
 docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t oryd/sdk:latest .
-docker tag oryd/sdk:latest oryd/sdk:v0.0.51
-docker push oryd/sdk:v0.0.51
+docker tag oryd/sdk:latest oryd/sdk:v0.0.53
+docker push oryd/sdk:v0.0.53
 ```
 
 ## Running the Image Locally
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index 6e6d9f583eb..1941a0b3fb1 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -195,24 +195,16 @@ dotnet() {
 
 dart() {
   dir="clients/${PROJECT}/dart"
-
-#   mkdir -p ~/.pub-cache || true
-#   set +x
-#   cat <<EOF > ~/.pub-cache/credentials.json
-# {
-#   "accessToken":"${DART_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
-#   "refreshToken":"${DART_REFRESH_TOKEN}",
-#   "tokenEndpoint": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
-#   "scopes": [
-#     "openid",
-#     "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email"
-#   ],
-#   "expiration": 1611594593613
-# }
-# EOF
-#   set -x
-
-#   (cd "${dir}"; VERSION=${RAW_VERSION} command dart pub publish --force)
+  mkdir -p ~/.pub-cache || true
+  set +x
+  echo "$DART_SERVICE_ACCOUNT" | base64 -d > ~/.pub-cache/key-file.json
+  gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=~/.pub-cache/key-file.json
+  gcloud auth print-identity-token \
+    --audiences=https://pub.dev \
+    | dart pub token add https://pub.dev
+  set -x
+
+  (cd "${dir}"; VERSION=${RAW_VERSION} command dart pub publish --force)
   to_git "dart" "yes"
 }