diff --git a/.jupyter-releaser.toml b/.jupyter-releaser.toml
index 37ad609f8..406ad31e9 100644
--- a/.jupyter-releaser.toml
+++ b/.jupyter-releaser.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ before-build-python = [
 ]
 
 [options]
-version-cmd = "npx -p lerna -y lerna version --no-git-tag-version --no-push -y"
+version-cmd = "../../scripts/bump-version.sh"
 python_packages = [
     "packages/jupyter-ai:jupyter-ai",
     "packages/jupyter-ai-dalle:jupyter-ai-dalle"
diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai-dalle/src/index.ts b/packages/jupyter-ai-dalle/src/index.ts
index 61daa78eb..b7fe6a63b 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai-dalle/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai-dalle/src/index.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const plugin: JupyterFrontEndPlugin<void> = {
     console.log('JupyterLab extension jupyter_ai_dalle is activated!');
 
     // handle below-in-image insertion mode for notebooks
-    app.commands.addCommand('gai:insert-below-in-image', {
+    app.commands.addCommand('ai:insert-below-in-image', {
       // context has type InsertionContext, but cannot be typed as the frontend
       // package is not yet published to NPM
       execute: (context: any) => {
diff --git a/scripts/bump-version.sh b/scripts/bump-version.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..5d48d81ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/bump-version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# script that bumps version for all projects regardless of whether they were
+# changed since last release. needed because `lerna version` only bumps versions for projects
+# listed by `lerna changed` by default.
+#
+# see: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/2369
+
+for package in ../*; do
+    touch $package/TEMP
+    git add $package/TEMP
+done
+
+(npx -p lerna -y lerna version --no-git-tag-version --no-push -y $1) || exit 1
+
+for package in ../*; do
+    git rm -f $package/TEMP
+done