diff --git a/bin/publish b/bin/publish
index a30030435..f93bcf492 100755
--- a/bin/publish
+++ b/bin/publish
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function main() {
 
   # Add 'latest' tag only when TAG_NAME is the highest semantic tag
   local LATEST_TAG
-  LATEST_TAG="$(git tag | sort -r --version-sort)"
+  LATEST_TAG="$(git tag | sort -r --version-sort | head -1)"
   if [[ "${TAG_NAME}" == "${LATEST_TAG}" ]]; then
     TAGS+=('latest')
   fi