I am running into a weird issue where the NX release and publish are not in sync. I cannot commit the package.json's back to my repo for security reasons, however I can publish tags and changelogs. Given, two packages:

• package-a, version: 0.0.0-sem-released, tag: package-a@1.2.0
• package-b, version: 0.0.0-sem-released, tag: package-b@2.4.5

when I make a conventional commit to package-b with feat: and publish, I getting following changes:

NX version

update package-b/package.json

- "version": "0.0.0-sem-released"
+ "version": "2.5.0"

NX release

nx-release-publish:package-a

Added the dist-tag latest to 0.0.0-sem-released # <--- this is wrong

nx-release-publish:package-b

... build logs

Added the dist-tag latest to 2.5.0

1. Why nx publish running for a package that has no release on it and tagging it?
2. How can I fix this? I want NX to publish only versioned packages, not all
3. GH Copilot suggested setting "release.publish.onlyReleased" in nx.json, but it doesn't do anything, nor is it a valid option per the schema.
4. I am currently running a shell script to get the tags from the current branch and update the package.json myself, but this feels unnecessary. Is there a way I can avoid it?

❯ nx release --printConfig
{
  "version": {
    "preVersionCommand": "sh scripts/sync-package-versions.sh && pnpm exec nx run-many -t build -p packages/*",
    "conventionalCommits": true,
    "preserveLocalDependencyProtocols": false
  },
  "git": {
    "commit": false,
    "tag": true
  },
  "conventionalCommits": {
    "types": {
      "perf": {
        "semverBump": "patch"
      }
    }
  },
  "changelog": {
    "projectChangelogs": {
      "file": false,
      "createRelease": {
        "apiBaseUrl": "https://github.private.com/api/v3",
        "provider": "github-enterprise-server",
        "hostname": "github.private.com"
      }
    }
  },
  "releaseTag": {
    "pattern": "{projectName}@{version}"
  },
  "projectsRelationship": "independent"
}

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Node           : 24.11.1
OS             : darwin-arm64
Native Target  : aarch64-macos
pnpm           : 10.29.3
daemon         : Available

nx             : 22.4.2
@nx/js         : 22.4.2
@nx/workspace  : 22.4.2
@nx/devkit     : 22.4.2
typescript     : 5.9.3
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Please, I appreciate any help!