diff --git a/.github/renovate.json5 b/.github/renovate.json5
index 2bf358ef13..05f465cf7d 100644
--- a/.github/renovate.json5
+++ b/.github/renovate.json5
@@ -28,10 +28,30 @@
     {
       matchPackageNames: [
         'otel/**',
+        'open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification',
       ],
       schedule: ['at any time'],
     },
   ],
+  customManagers: [
+    {
+      customType: "regex",
+      description: "Update otel spec version in docs",
+      managerFilePatterns: [
+        "docs/**/*.md",
+        "README.md",
+      ],
+      matchStrings: [
+        "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/(?<depVersion>v[0-9.]+?)/(?!.*/semantic_conventions/)",
+        "https://img.shields.io/badge/OTel_specification_version-(?<depVersion>v[0-9.]+?)-",
+        "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/releases/tag/(?<depVersion>v[0-9.]+?)\\)",
+      ],
+      datasourceTemplate: "github-tags",
+      packageNameTemplate: "open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification",
+      versioningTemplate: "semver",
+      currentValueTemplate: "{{depVersion}}",
+    },
+  ],
   "lockFileMaintenance": {
     "enabled": true,
     "schedule": ["* 0-7 * * 2"] // weekly, before 8am on Tuesday
diff --git a/.github/scripts/update-spec-repo-links.sh b/.github/scripts/update-spec-repo-links.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 28fc5e77ea..0000000000
--- a/.github/scripts/update-spec-repo-links.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Example usage:
-#
-# ./internal/tools/update-spec-repo-links.sh v1.41.0
-
-# Set this to the version number you want to KEEP in URLs in the repository.
-LATEST_SPECIFICATION_VERSION=$1
-# The specific pattern we look for when replacing URLs
-SPECIFICATION_URL_PREFIX="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/"
-# The specific pattern we look for updating the Badge with the spec version
-SPECIFICATION_BADGE_PREFIX="https://img.shields.io/badge/OTel_specification_version-"
-SPECIFICATION_BADGE_RELEASE_TAG_PREFIX="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/releases/tag/"
-
-fix_file() {
-  echo Fixing file "$1"
-
-  # Replace any versioned spec URL/badge with the latest version.
-  # Uses a negative lookahead to skip URLs pointing to semantic_conventions/
-  # paths that were moved from the spec repo and no longer exist in newer versions.
-  perl -pi -e "
-    s,\Q${SPECIFICATION_URL_PREFIX}\Ev1\.\d+\.\d+(?!.*/semantic_conventions/),${SPECIFICATION_URL_PREFIX}${LATEST_SPECIFICATION_VERSION},g;
-    s,\Q${SPECIFICATION_BADGE_PREFIX}\Ev1\.\d+\.\d+,${SPECIFICATION_BADGE_PREFIX}${LATEST_SPECIFICATION_VERSION},g;
-    s,\Q${SPECIFICATION_BADGE_RELEASE_TAG_PREFIX}\Ev1\.\d+\.\d+,${SPECIFICATION_BADGE_RELEASE_TAG_PREFIX}${LATEST_SPECIFICATION_VERSION},g;
-  " "$1"
-}
-
-important_files=("docs" "model" "README.md")
-
-# TODO - limit to markdown/yaml files?
-find "${important_files[@]}" -type f -not -path '*/.*' -not -path '*.png' -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file; do
-  fix_file "$file"
-done
diff --git a/.github/workflows/auto-update-spec-repo-links.yml b/.github/workflows/auto-update-spec-repo-links.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 96043667cf..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/auto-update-spec-repo-links.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-name: Auto-update spec repo links
-on:
-  schedule:
-    # hourly at minute 46
-    - cron: "46 * * * *"
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  check-versions:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'open-telemetry'
-    outputs:
-      latest-version: ${{ steps.check-versions.outputs.latest-version }}
-      already-opened: ${{ steps.check-versions.outputs.already-opened }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-
-      - id: check-versions
-        name: Check versions
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          latest_version=$(gh release view \
-                               --repo open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification \
-                               --json tagName \
-                               --jq .tagName)
-
-          matches=$(gh pr list \
-                        --author otelbot[bot] \
-                        --state open \
-                        --search "in:title \"Update spec repo links to $latest_version\"")
-          if [ ! -z "$matches" ]
-          then
-            already_opened=true
-          fi
-
-          echo "latest-version=$latest_version" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "already-opened=$already_opened" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-  update-spec-repo-links:
-    permissions:
-      contents: write # required for pushing changes
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: |
-      needs.check-versions.outputs.already-opened != 'true'
-    needs:
-      - check-versions
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-
-      - name: Use CLA approved github bot
-        run: .github/scripts/use-cla-approved-github-bot.sh
-
-      - name: Update version
-        env:
-          VERSION: ${{ needs.check-versions.outputs.latest-version }}
-        run: .github/scripts/update-spec-repo-links.sh $VERSION
-
-      - uses: actions/create-github-app-token@1b10c78c7865c340bc4f6099eb2f838309f1e8c3 # v3.1.1
-        id: otelbot-token
-        with:
-          app-id: ${{ vars.OTELBOT_APP_ID }}
-          private-key: ${{ secrets.OTELBOT_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-
-      - name: Create pull request
-        env:
-          VERSION: ${{ needs.check-versions.outputs.latest-version }}
-          # not using secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN since pull requests from that token do not run workflows
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.otelbot-token.outputs.token }}
-        run: |
-          message="Update spec repo links to $VERSION"
-          body="Update spec repo links to \`$VERSION\`."
-          branch="otelbot/update-spec-repo-links-to-$VERSION"
-
-          git checkout -b $branch
-          git commit -a -m "$message"
-          git push --set-upstream origin $branch
-          gh pr create --title "[chore] $message" \
-                       --body "$body" \
-                       --base main