diff --git a/PUBLISHING.md b/PUBLISHING.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5f2b7f0302
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PUBLISHING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Stable Version
+
+Run
+
+```
+npm version major
+npm version minor
+npm version patch
+```
+
+commit and merge into `main`. The CI will publish the new version to npm automatically if `package.json` version is higher than the one in the registry.
+
+# Next Version
+
+Every `main` branch commit gets automatically published to npm with `next` tag and `0.0.0-next-df279c1e7` version where `df279c1e7` is the short commit hash.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 048ef86006..697d11e34e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "baseui",
-  "version": "13.0.0",
+  "version": "14.0.0",
   "description": "A React Component library implementing the Base design language",
   "keywords": [
     "react",
diff --git a/publish/publish-next.js b/publish/publish-next.js
index 386df4cb10..2f7c88ffcf 100755
--- a/publish/publish-next.js
+++ b/publish/publish-next.js
@@ -2,19 +2,46 @@
 
 const { execSync } = require("child_process");
 const fs = require("fs");
+const pkgJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("./package.json"));
 
-const shortHash = execSync("git rev-parse --short HEAD").toString().trim();
-const version = `0.0.0-next-${shortHash}`;
+const publishNext = () => {
+  const shortHash = execSync("git rev-parse --short HEAD").toString().trim();
+  const version = `0.0.0-next-${shortHash}`;
+  console.log(`Publishing baseui ${version}`);
+  pkgJson.version = version;
+  delete pkgJson.scripts.prepare;
+  fs.writeFileSync("./dist/package.json", JSON.stringify(pkgJson, null, 2));
 
-console.log(`Publishing baseui ${version}`);
-const pkgJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("./package.json"));
-pkgJson.version = version;
-delete pkgJson.scripts.prepare;
-fs.writeFileSync("./dist/package.json", JSON.stringify(pkgJson, null, 2));
+  try {
+    execSync("cd dist && npm publish --tag next");
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.log(e);
+    console.log("Next publish failed.");
+  }
+};
 
-try {
-  execSync("cd dist && npm publish --tag next");
-} catch (e) {
-  console.log(e);
-  console.log("Publish failed.");
-}
+fetch(`https://registry.npmjs.org/baseui`)
+  .then((response) => response.json())
+  .then((data) => {
+    const latest = data["dist-tags"].latest;
+    console.log(`Latest version of baseui is: ${latest}`);
+    if (latest !== pkgJson.version) {
+      console.log(
+        `The package.json version ${pkgJson.version} is different from the one that's published ${latest}.`
+      );
+      console.log(`Publishing baseui@${pkgJson.version}...`);
+      delete pkgJson.scripts.prepare;
+      fs.writeFileSync("./dist/package.json", JSON.stringify(pkgJson, null, 2));
+      try {
+        execSync("cd dist && npm publish");
+      } catch (e) {
+        console.log(e);
+        console.log("Stable publish failed.");
+      }
+    }
+    publishNext();
+  })
+  .catch((error) => {
+    console.error("Error when fetching latest baseui version:", error);
+    publishNext();
+  });