diff --git a/.github/workflows/if-nodejs-release.yml b/.github/workflows/if-nodejs-release.yml
index 4938a37da..7864ce5f8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/if-nodejs-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/if-nodejs-release.yml
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ jobs:
       - if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
         name: Add plugin for conventional commits for semantic-release
         run: npm install --save-dev conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits@5.0.0
+      - if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
+        name: Add plugin for executing normal commands
+        run: npm install --save-dev @semantic-release/exec
       - if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
         name: Publish to any of NPM, Github, and Docker Hub
         id: release
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5955a1d37..188d689f3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ run:
 
 # Updates the action.yml file with the latest version of the action got from $VERSION env variable
 generate-assets:
-	sed "s/docker:\/\/asyncapi\/github-action-for-cli:.*/docker:\/\/asyncapi\/github-action-for-cli:${VERSION}'/g" action.yml > action.yml.tmp
+	version=$$(echo ${VERSION} | sed 's/v//g'); \
+	sed "s/docker:\/\/asyncapi\/github-action-for-cli:.*/docker:\/\/asyncapi\/github-action-for-cli:$$version'/g" action.yml > action.yml.tmp
 	@mv action.yml.tmp action.yml
 
 test: test-default test-validate-success test-validate-fail test-custom-output test-custom-commands test-optimize test-bundle test-convert