diff --git a/.github/actions/notify-slack/action.yml b/.github/actions/notify-slack/action.yml
index b65583c4..0f89a0a4 100644
--- a/.github/actions/notify-slack/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/notify-slack/action.yml
@@ -3,37 +3,29 @@ description: "Action to send slack payload to public-sdk-events channel"
 
 inputs:
   heading_text:
-    required: false
+    required: true
     description: "Heading of the slack payload"
   alert_type:
-    required: false
+    required: true
     description: "type of the slack alert"
   job_status:
-    required: false
+    required: true
     description: "status of the job"
   XERO_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL:
-    required: false
+    required: true
     description: "webhook url for channel - public-sdk-events"
   job_url:
-    required: false
+    required: true
     description: "job event link"
   button_type:
-   required: false
-   description: "color for the logs button"
+   required: true
+   description: "color for the check logs button"
 
 
 runs:
   using: "composite"
 
   steps:
-      # - name: testing
-      #   shell: bash
-      #   run: |
-      #    echo ${{inputs.alert_type}}
-      #    echo ${{inputs.heading_text}}
-      #    echo ${{inputs.job_status}}
-      #    echo ${{github.repository}}
-      #    echo ${{github.sha}}
 
       - name: Send slack notification
         id: slack
@@ -79,10 +71,6 @@ runs:
                   {
                     "type": "mrkdwn",
                     "text": "*Status:*\n ${{inputs.job_status}}"
-                  },
-                  {
-                  "type": "mrkdwn",
-                  "text": "*Commit:*\n ${{github.sha}}"
                   }
                 ]
               },
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 6cc8069a..a5c7e051 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ on:
 jobs:
   publish:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      release_number: ${{steps.get_latest_release_number.outputs.release_tag}}
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
     steps:
       - name: Checkout xero-node repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -32,6 +37,15 @@ jobs:
       #   run: npm run build
       #   working-directory: xero-node
 
+      - name: Fetch Latest release number
+        id: get_latest_release_number
+        run: |
+          latest_version=$(gh release view --json tagName --jq '.tagName')
+          echo "Latest release version is - $latest_version"
+          echo "::set-output name=release_tag::$latest_version"
+        env:
+         GH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+
       - name: Publish to npm
         # env:
         #   NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
@@ -49,6 +63,9 @@ jobs:
           repository: XeroAPI/xero-node
           path: xero-node
 
+      - name: print release number
+        run: echo "release number - ${{needs.publish.outputs.release_number}}"
+
       - name: Send slack notification on success
         uses: ./xero-node/.github/actions/notify-slack
         with: