diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-submodules.yaml b/.github/workflows/release-submodules.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f7baeb5b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-submodules.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+name: release-please-submodule
+jobs:
+  changeFinder:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      nodePaths: ${{ steps.interrogate.outputs.nodePaths }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - id: interrogate
+        uses: actions/github-script@v3
+        with:
+            github-token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+            script: |
+              const {execSync} = require('child_process');
+              const [owner, repo] = process.env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY.split('/');
+              const latestRelease = await github.repos.getLatestRelease({
+                owner,
+                repo
+              });
+              console.log(`latest release: ${JSON.stringify(latestRelease.data)}`);
+              execSync('git pull --tags');
+              execSync(`git reset --hard ${latestRelease.data.tag_name}`);
+              const status = execSync(`git diff --name-only origin/master`, { encoding: 'utf-8'});
+              console.log(status);
+              const changes = status.split('\n');
+              let nodePaths = new Set();
+              for (const change of changes) {
+                if (change.startsWith('packages/')) {
+                    const library = change.split('/')[1];
+                    nodePaths.add(library);
+                };
+              }
+              nodePaths = Array.from(nodePaths);
+              console.log(`::set-output name=nodePaths::${JSON.stringify(nodePaths)}`);
+  release-pr:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: changeFinder
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        package: ${{fromJson(needs.changeFinder.outputs.nodePaths)}}
+    steps:
+      - uses: GoogleCloudPlatform/release-please-action@v2
+        id: release-please
+        with:
+           path: packages/${{ matrix.package }}
+           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+           release-type: node
+           package-name: ${{ matrix.package }}
+           monorepo-tags: true
+           command: release-pr
+  release-please-release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: changeFinder
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        package: ${{fromJson(needs.changeFinder.outputs.nodePaths)}}
+    steps:
+      - uses: GoogleCloudPlatform/release-please-action@v2
+        id: tag-release
+        with:
+          path: packages/${{ matrix.package }}
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          release-type: node
+          monorepo-tags: true
+          package-name: ${{ matrix.package }}
+          command: github-release
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        if: ${{ steps.tag-release.outputs.release_created }}
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+        if: ${{ steps.tag-release.outputs.release_created }}
+        with:
+          node-version: 14
+          registry-url: 'https://wombat-dressing-room.appspot.com/'
+      - name: publish
+        if: ${{ steps.tag-release.outputs.release_created }}
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_TOKEN}}
+        run: |
+          cd src/apis/${{ matrix.package }}
+          npm install
+          npm publish --access=public
diff --git a/lerna.json b/lerna.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 7926728a6..000000000
--- a/lerna.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "packages": ["packages/*"],
-  "version": "independent"
-}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f54b09f9e..4484bd403 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     "pretest": "npm run lint",
     "test": "c8 mocha --timeout 30000 packages/*/test{,/*}.js",
     "test-windows": "c8 mocha --timeout 60000 packages/*/test{,/*}.js",
-    "release": "lerna publish --conventional-commits --dist-tag=next"
+    "postinstall": "bash scripts/install.sh"
   },
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "devDependencies": {
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
     "c8": "^7.1.2",
     "chai": "^4.2.0",
     "concat-stream": "^2.0.0",
+    "conventional-changelog-core": "^4.2.1",
     "coveralls": "^3.0.2",
     "eslint": "^7.0.0",
     "eslint-config-standard": "^16.0.1",
@@ -58,7 +59,6 @@
     "forceable-tty": "^0.1.0",
     "git-dummy-commit": "^1.2.0",
     "git-tails": "^1.0.0",
-    "lerna": "^3.20.2",
     "mkdirp": "^1.0.0",
     "mocha": "^8.0.0",
     "pinkie-promise": "^2.0.0",
@@ -72,28 +72,5 @@
     "through2": "^4.0.0",
     "tmp": "^0.2.1",
     "vinyl": "^2.1.0"
-  },
-  "dependencies": {
-    "conventional-changelog": "file:packages/conventional-changelog",
-    "conventional-changelog-angular": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-angular",
-    "conventional-changelog-atom": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-atom",
-    "conventional-changelog-cli": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-cli",
-    "conventional-changelog-codemirror": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-codemirror",
-    "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits",
-    "conventional-changelog-core": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-core",
-    "conventional-changelog-ember": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-ember",
-    "conventional-changelog-eslint": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-eslint",
-    "conventional-changelog-express": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-express",
-    "conventional-changelog-jquery": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-jquery",
-    "conventional-changelog-jshint": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-jshint",
-    "conventional-changelog-preset-loader": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-preset-loader",
-    "conventional-changelog-writer": "file:packages/conventional-changelog-writer",
-    "conventional-commits-filter": "file:packages/conventional-commits-filter",
-    "conventional-commits-parser": "file:packages/conventional-commits-parser",
-    "conventional-recommended-bump": "file:packages/conventional-recommended-bump",
-    "git-raw-commits": "file:packages/git-raw-commits",
-    "git-semver-tags": "file:packages/git-semver-tags",
-    "gulp-conventional-changelog": "file:packages/gulp-conventional-changelog",
-    "standard-changelog": "file:packages/standard-changelog"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/conventional-changelog-cli/package.json b/packages/conventional-changelog-cli/package.json
index a2b41032f..3c7b6a3da 100644
--- a/packages/conventional-changelog-cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/conventional-changelog-cli/package.json
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "add-stream": "^1.0.0",
-    "conventional-changelog": "file:../conventional-changelog",
+    "conventional-changelog": "^3.1.24",
     "lodash": "^4.17.15",
     "meow": "^8.0.0",
     "tempfile": "^3.0.0"
diff --git a/packages/conventional-changelog-core/package.json b/packages/conventional-changelog-core/package.json
index ce8ea530c..9c999c662 100644
--- a/packages/conventional-changelog-core/package.json
+++ b/packages/conventional-changelog-core/package.json
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@
   "homepage": "https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-core#readme",
   "dependencies": {
     "add-stream": "^1.0.0",
-    "conventional-changelog-writer": "file:../conventional-changelog-writer",
-    "conventional-commits-parser": "file:../conventional-commits-parser",
+    "conventional-changelog-writer": "^4.0.18",
+    "conventional-commits-parser": "^3.2.0",
     "dateformat": "^3.0.0",
     "get-pkg-repo": "^1.0.0",
     "git-raw-commits": "2.0.0",
     "git-remote-origin-url": "^2.0.0",
-    "git-semver-tags": "file:../git-semver-tags",
+    "git-semver-tags": "^4.1.1",
     "lodash": "^4.17.15",
     "normalize-package-data": "^3.0.0",
     "q": "^1.5.1",
@@ -44,5 +44,8 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test-windows": "mocha --timeout 30000"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "conventional-changelog-angular": "^5.0.12"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/conventional-changelog-preset-loader/package.json b/packages/conventional-changelog-preset-loader/package.json
index 394fbfb93..82972e774 100644
--- a/packages/conventional-changelog-preset-loader/package.json
+++ b/packages/conventional-changelog-preset-loader/package.json
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     "test-windows": "mocha --timeout 30000"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "conventional-changelog-angular": "^5.0.12",
     "sinon": "^9.0.2"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/conventional-changelog-writer/package.json b/packages/conventional-changelog-writer/package.json
index f366591e9..b35f140c1 100644
--- a/packages/conventional-changelog-writer/package.json
+++ b/packages/conventional-changelog-writer/package.json
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
   ],
   "dependencies": {
     "compare-func": "^2.0.0",
-    "conventional-commits-filter": "file:../conventional-commits-filter",
+    "conventional-commits-filter": "^2.0.7",
     "dateformat": "^3.0.0",
     "handlebars": "^4.7.6",
     "json-stringify-safe": "^5.0.1",
diff --git a/packages/conventional-changelog/package.json b/packages/conventional-changelog/package.json
index b3feb4c9f..7ba770f34 100644
--- a/packages/conventional-changelog/package.json
+++ b/packages/conventional-changelog/package.json
@@ -35,17 +35,17 @@
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog#readme",
   "dependencies": {
-    "conventional-changelog-angular": "file:../conventional-changelog-angular",
-    "conventional-changelog-atom": "file:../conventional-changelog-atom",
-    "conventional-changelog-codemirror": "file:../conventional-changelog-codemirror",
-    "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits": "file:../conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits",
-    "conventional-changelog-core": "file:../conventional-changelog-core",
-    "conventional-changelog-ember": "file:../conventional-changelog-ember",
-    "conventional-changelog-eslint": "file:../conventional-changelog-eslint",
-    "conventional-changelog-express": "file:../conventional-changelog-express",
-    "conventional-changelog-jquery": "file:../conventional-changelog-jquery",
-    "conventional-changelog-jshint": "file:../conventional-changelog-jshint",
-    "conventional-changelog-preset-loader": "file:../conventional-changelog-preset-loader"
+    "conventional-changelog-angular": "^5.0.12",
+    "conventional-changelog-atom": "^2.0.8",
+    "conventional-changelog-codemirror": "^2.0.8",
+    "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits": "^4.5.0",
+    "conventional-changelog-core": "^4.2.1",
+    "conventional-changelog-ember": "^2.0.9",
+    "conventional-changelog-eslint": "^3.0.9",
+    "conventional-changelog-express": "^2.0.6",
+    "conventional-changelog-jquery": "^3.0.11",
+    "conventional-changelog-jshint": "^2.0.9",
+    "conventional-changelog-preset-loader": "^2.3.4"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test-windows": "mocha --timeout 30000"
diff --git a/packages/conventional-recommended-bump/package.json b/packages/conventional-recommended-bump/package.json
index 2fbdee468..9467db0ef 100644
--- a/packages/conventional-recommended-bump/package.json
+++ b/packages/conventional-recommended-bump/package.json
@@ -32,16 +32,19 @@
   ],
   "dependencies": {
     "concat-stream": "^2.0.0",
-    "conventional-changelog-preset-loader": "file:../conventional-changelog-preset-loader",
-    "conventional-commits-filter": "file:../conventional-commits-filter",
-    "conventional-commits-parser": "file:../conventional-commits-parser",
+    "conventional-changelog-preset-loader": "^2.3.4",
+    "conventional-commits-filter": "^2.0.7",
+    "conventional-commits-parser": "^3.2.0",
     "git-raw-commits": "2.0.0",
-    "git-semver-tags": "file:../git-semver-tags",
+    "git-semver-tags": "^4.1.1",
     "meow": "^8.0.0",
     "q": "^1.5.1"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test-windows": "mocha --timeout 30000 ./test/preset-resolver.spec.js"
   },
-  "bin": "cli.js"
+  "bin": "cli.js",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits": "^4.5.0"
+  }
 }
diff --git a/packages/gulp-conventional-changelog/package.json b/packages/gulp-conventional-changelog/package.json
index e7fd1f4c8..cbeb6151a 100644
--- a/packages/gulp-conventional-changelog/package.json
+++ b/packages/gulp-conventional-changelog/package.json
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "add-stream": "^1.0.0",
     "concat-stream": "^2.0.0",
-    "conventional-changelog": "file:../conventional-changelog",
+    "conventional-changelog": "^3.1.24",
     "fancy-log": "^1.3.2",
     "object-assign": "^4.0.1",
     "plugin-error": "^1.0.1",
diff --git a/packages/standard-changelog/package.json b/packages/standard-changelog/package.json
index ba41e47f6..2cfa4f55a 100644
--- a/packages/standard-changelog/package.json
+++ b/packages/standard-changelog/package.json
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "add-stream": "^1.0.0",
     "chalk": "^4.0.0",
-    "conventional-changelog-angular": "file:../conventional-changelog-angular",
-    "conventional-changelog-core": "file:../conventional-changelog-core",
+    "conventional-changelog-angular": "^5.0.12",
+    "conventional-changelog-core": "^4.2.1",
     "figures": "^3.0.0",
     "fs-access": "^1.0.0",
     "lodash": "^4.17.15",
diff --git a/renovate.json b/renovate.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 99c8dedf0..000000000
--- a/renovate.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "lockFileMaintenance": { "enabled": false }
-}
diff --git a/scripts/install.sh b/scripts/install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..b7652e819
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+for d in ./packages/* ; do
+  echo "installing deps for $d"
+  cd $d
+  npm i
+  cd ../../
+done