Nx release followed by publish not using generated version

[ash-burns]

Current Behavior

I have a workflow which takes a comma separated list of projects and a version specifier to manually release libraries, using the following nx commands:

- name: Manually publish packages
  run: |
    pnpm exec nx release --projects ${{ github.event.inputs.projects }} --specifier ${{ github.event.inputs.specifier }} --skip-publish
    pnpm exec nx release publish --projects ${{ github.event.inputs.projects }} --output-style=stream

However I get the following output when I provide "styles", which doesn’t identify it has generated a new version to release. Running it again will recognise "1.6.0" hasn't been published yet and continues to publish it to a private npm repo.

NX   Your filter "styles" matched the following projects:

- styles

 NX   Running release version for project: styles

styles 🔍 Reading data for package "@(repo)/styles" from libs/styles/package.json
styles 📄 Resolved the current version as 1.5.0 from git tag "[email protected]".
styles 📄 Using the provided version specifier "minor".
styles ✍️  New version 1.6.0 written to libs/styles/package.json

UPDATE libs/styles/package.json

    "name": "@(repo)/styles",
-   "version": "1.5.0",
+   "version": "1.6.0",
    "peerDependencies": {

 NX   Staging changed files with git

 NX   Committing changes with git

 NX   Tagging commit with git

 NX   Pushing to git remote "origin"

 NX   Creating GitHub Release

CREATE https://github.com/(repo)/common-ui/releases/tag/[email protected]

+ ## 1.6.0 (2025-02-25)
+
+ This was a version bump only for styles to align it with other projects, there were no code changes.

 NX   Skipped publishing packages.

 NX   Your filter "styles" matched the following projects:

- styles

 NX   Running target nx-release-publish for project styles:

- styles

> nx run styles:nx-release-publish

styles: Skipped package "@(repo)/styles" from project "styles" because v1.5.0 already exists in https://npm.pkg.github.com/ with tag "latest"

 NX   Successfully ran target nx-release-publish for project styles

Expected Behavior

I expect the command "nx run styles:nx-release-publish" to identify that v1.6.0 has just been released and to publish it correctly.

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Execute a Github Action with the following step.

- name: Manually publish packages
  run: |
    pnpm exec nx release --projects ${{ github.event.inputs.projects }} --specifier ${{ github.event.inputs.specifier }} --skip-publish
    pnpm exec nx release publish --projects ${{ github.event.inputs.projects }} --output-style=stream

Nx Report

Node           : 22.14.0
OS             : win32-x64
Native Target  : x86_64-windows
pnpm           : 10.4.1

nx (global)            : 20.4.1
nx                     : 20.4.6
@nx/js                 : 20.4.6
@nx/jest               : 20.4.6
@nx/eslint             : 20.4.6
@nx/workspace          : 20.4.6
@nx/angular            : 20.4.6
@nx/devkit             : 20.4.5
@nx/eslint-plugin      : 20.4.6
@nx/module-federation  : 20.4.5
@nx/web                : 20.4.6
@nx/webpack            : 20.4.5
typescript             : 5.7.3
---------------------------------------
Community plugins:
angular-eslint : 19.1.0
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Failure Logs

Package Manager Version

pnpm 10.4.1

Operating System

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows
• Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

My nx.json config:

"release": {
    "projects": ["libs/*"],
    "projectsRelationship": "independent",
    "version": {
      "conventionalCommits": true,
      "generatorOptions": {
        "fallbackCurrentVersionResolver": "disk",
        "updateDependents": "auto",
        "skipLockFileUpdate": false
      }
    },
    "changelog": {
      "projectChangelogs": {
        "renderOptions": {
          "authors": false
        },
        "createRelease": "github",
        "file": false
      },
      "automaticFromRef": true
    }
  },
  "targetDefaults": {
    "nx-release-publish": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"],
      "options": {
        "packageRoot": "dist/libs/{projectName}"
      }
    },