diff --git a/js/gulp/package-task.js b/js/gulp/package-task.js
index c42b3fc3233..3390da01923 100644
--- a/js/gulp/package-task.js
+++ b/js/gulp/package-task.js
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ const createMainPackageJson = (target, format) => (orig) => ({
     main: mainExport,
     types: `${mainExport}.d.ts`,
     module: `${mainExport}.mjs`,
-    dist: `${mainExport}.es5.min.js`,
-    [`dist:es2015`]: `${mainExport}.es2015.min.js`,
+    unpkg: `${mainExport}.es5.min.js`,
     [`@std/esm`]: { esm: `mjs`, warnings: false, sourceMap: true }
 });
   
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ const createScopedPackageJSON = (target, format) => (({ name, ...orig }) =>
             {
                 name: `${npmOrgName}/${packageName(target, format)}`,
                 version: undefined, main: `${mainExport}.js`, types: `${mainExport}.d.ts`,
-                dist: undefined, [`dist:es2015`]: undefined, module: undefined, [`@std/esm`]: undefined
+                unpkg: undefined, module: undefined, [`@std/esm`]: undefined
             }
         )
     )
diff --git a/js/npm-release.sh b/js/npm-release.sh
index 42cd73c0cfe..3ef24d3e6f8 100755
--- a/js/npm-release.sh
+++ b/js/npm-release.sh
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ npx run-s clean:all lint build
 npm run test
 
 # publish the JS target modules to npm
-npx lerna publish --yes --skip-git --force-publish=*
+npx lerna exec -- npm publish