diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index 1f2767bf47..874bd6035c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "tag: $tag"
           version=${tag:1}
           echo "version $version"
-          ci/deploy.sh bump_version $version
+          ci/deploy.sh bump_py_version $version
       - name: Build a binary wheel
         run: |
           pip install pyarrow==4.0.0 Cython wheel numpy pytest
diff --git a/ci/deploy.sh b/ci/deploy.sh
index ba37701b4e..0565b8d49d 100755
--- a/ci/deploy.sh
+++ b/ci/deploy.sh
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ bump_javascript_version() {
   cd "$ROOT/javascript"
   echo "Set fury javascript version to $version"
   pushd packages/fury
-  sed -i '' -E "s/\"version\": .*,/\"version\": \"$version\",/" package.json
+  sed -i -E "s/\"version\": .*,/\"version\": \"$version\",/" package.json
   popd
   pushd packages/hps
-  sed -i '' -E "s/\"version\": .*,/\"version\": \"$version\",/" package.json
+  sed -i -E "s/\"version\": .*,/\"version\": \"$version\",/" package.json
   popd
 }