diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-container.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-container.yml
index 0e931e7..bb2dec8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-container.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-container.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install -U pip
-          sudo apt-get install wget grep
+          sudo apt-get install wget grep jq
       - name: Compare version from pip and docker and set version
         id: getversion
         run: |
diff --git a/scripts/auto_publish/compare-versions b/scripts/auto_publish/compare-versions
index 65507b3..f9391af 100755
--- a/scripts/auto_publish/compare-versions
+++ b/scripts/auto_publish/compare-versions
@@ -8,16 +8,16 @@ pip_latest_version() {
     python -m pip index versions commitizen | grep commitizen | grep -o -P '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'
 }
 
-# requires wget, sed, gnu awk
+# requires curl & jq
 list_cz_docker_versions() {
-    image=commitizen/commitizen
-    wget -q "https://registry.hub.docker.com/v1/repositories/${image}/tags" -O -  | sed -e 's/[][]//g' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/ //g' | tr '}' '\n'  | awk -F: '{print $3}'
+    curl -L -s 'https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/commitizen/commitizen/tags/' | jq -r '.results[].name'
 }
 
 PIP_LATEST=$(pip_latest_version)
-echo "latest pip version found '$PIP_LATEST'"
+printf "latest pip version found:\n%s\n\n" "$PIP_LATEST"
 
 tags=$(list_cz_docker_versions)
+printf "Docker hub tags found:\n%s\n\n" "$tags"
 
 if echo "${tags}" | grep -q "$PIP_LATEST"; then
     echo "Version already present, skipping other steps..."
@@ -28,4 +28,3 @@ else
     echo "Setting variable 'version'"
     echo "::set-output name=version::$PIP_LATEST"
 fi
-