diff --git a/src/publish.js b/src/publish.js
index 23c7c0704..1d60cee89 100644
--- a/src/publish.js
+++ b/src/publish.js
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ module.exports = function strain() {
         .withConfigPurgeAPI(argv.apiConfigPurge)
         .withFilter(argv.only, argv.exclude)
         .withCustomVCLs(argv.customVCL)
+        .withDispatchVersion(argv.dispatchVersion)
         .run();
     },
   };
diff --git a/test/testPublishCli.js b/test/testPublishCli.js
index ba0175e82..2dd162351 100644
--- a/test/testPublishCli.js
+++ b/test/testPublishCli.js
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ describe('hlx publish', () => {
     mockPublish.withGithubToken.returnsThis();
     mockPublish.withFilter.returnsThis();
     mockPublish.withCustomVCLs.returnsThis();
+    mockPublish.withDispatchVersion.returnsThis();
     mockPublish.run.returnsThis();
   });
 
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ describe('hlx publish', () => {
     sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withPublishAPI, 'foobar.api');
     sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withDryRun, true);
     sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withCustomVCLs, []);
+    sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withDispatchVersion, undefined);
   });
 
   it('hlx publish works with minimal arguments', () => {
@@ -91,6 +93,7 @@ describe('hlx publish', () => {
     sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withFastlyNamespace, 'hlx'); // TODO !!
     sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withFastlyAuth, 'secret-key');
     sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withCustomVCLs, []);
+    sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withDispatchVersion, undefined);
     sinon.assert.calledOnce(mockPublish.run);
   });
 
@@ -128,4 +131,18 @@ describe('hlx publish', () => {
 
     assert.fail('publish w/o github token should fail.');
   });
+
+  it('hlx publish handles dispatch-version', () => {
+    new CLI()
+      .withCommandExecutor('publish', mockPublish)
+      .run(['publish',
+        '--wsk-auth', 'secret-key',
+        '--wsk-namespace', 'hlx',
+        '--fastly-auth', 'secret-key',
+        '--fastly-namespace', 'hlx',
+        '--dispatch-version', 'ci1',
+      ]);
+
+    sinon.assert.calledWith(mockPublish.withDispatchVersion, 'ci1');
+  });
 });