diff --git a/scripts/release/publish b/scripts/release/publish
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Use for PATCH releases
-# Publish all packages in `dist/packages-dist` to npm
-
-(cd dist/packages-dist; for p in `ls .`; do npm publish --access public $p; done)
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diff --git a/scripts/release/publish-latest b/scripts/release/publish-latest
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -u -e -o pipefail
+
+# Use for BETA and RC releases
+# Query Bazel for npm_package and ng_package rules with tags=["release-with-framework"]
+# Publish them to npm (tagged next)
+
+# query for all npm packages to be released as part of the framework release
+NPM_PACKAGE_LABELS=`bazel query --output=label 'attr("tags", "\[.*release-with-framework.*\]", //packages/...) intersect kind(".*_package", //packages/...)'`
+# build all npm packages in parallel
+bazel build $NPM_PACKAGE_LABELS
+# publish all packages in sequence to make it easier to spot any errors or warnings
+for packageLabel in $NPM_PACKAGE_LABELS; do
+  echo "publishing $packageLabel"
+  bazel run -- ${packageLabel}.publish --access public --tag latest
+done
+