diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-npm.yml b/.github/workflows/release-npm.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e624c8afe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-npm.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+name: "Release : NPM packages"
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: "NocoDB package tag"
+        required: true
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      working-directory: ./packages/nocodb
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        node-version: [12]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      # Setup .npmrc file to publish to npm
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
+        with:
+          node-version: '12.x'
+          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+      - run: |
+          cd packages/nc-gui
+          npm install
+          npm run build:copy:jsdeliver
+          cd ../..
+          npm install
+          VERSION=${{github.event.inputs.version}} node scripts/upgradeNcGui.js node scripts/upgradeNcGui.js && cd packages/nocodb && npm run obfuscate:build:publish
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v3
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+#          commit-message: Update report
+#          committer: GitHub <noreply@github.com>
+#          author: ${{ github.actor }} <${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com>
+          signoff: true
+          branch: release-patches
+          delete-branch: true
+          title: 'Release ${{github.event.inputs.tag}}'
+          labels: |
+            release
+            automated pr
+
+      - name: Check outputs
+        run: |
+          echo "Pull Request Number - ${{ steps.cpr.outputs.pull-request-number }}"
+          echo "Pull Request URL - ${{ steps.cpr.outputs.pull-request-url }}"
+
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/package-lock.json b/packages/nocodb/package-lock.json
index 5345c97a1f..e5270a5ffd 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/package-lock.json
+++ b/packages/nocodb/package-lock.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nocodb",
-  "version": "0.11.35",
+  "version": "0.11.36",
   "lockfileVersion": 1,
   "requires": true,
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/package.json b/packages/nocodb/package.json
index 04a389b284..0d0462ed4b 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/package.json
+++ b/packages/nocodb/package.json
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
     "nanoid": "^3.1.20",
     "nc-common": "0.0.6",
     "nc-help": "^0.2.14",
-    "nc-lib-gui": "^0.2.55",
+    "nc-lib-gui": "0.2.55",
     "nc-plugin": "^0.1.1",
     "ncp": "^2.0.0",
     "nodemailer": "^6.4.10",
diff --git a/scripts/upgradeNcGui.js b/scripts/upgradeNcGui.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b31837155
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/upgradeNcGui.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+const fs = require('fs')
+const path = require('path')
+
+const execSync = require('child_process').execSync;
+
+// extract latest version from package.json
+const ncLibPackage = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'packages', 'nc-lib-gui', 'package.json')))
+
+// upgrade nc-lib-gui version in nocodb
+execSync(`cd packages/nocodb && npm install --save --save-exact nc-lib-gui@${ncLibPackage.version}`, {});
+
+const nocodbPackageFilePath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'packages', 'nocodb', 'package.json')
+const nocoLibPackage = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(nocodbPackageFilePath))
+nocoLibPackage.version = process.env.VERSION;
+fs.writeFileSync(nocodbPackageFilePath, JSON.stringify(nocoLibPackage, null, 2));