diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index e436d899..3341c7f0 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ eval $(${SCRIPTS_DIR}/get-component-versions.sh)
 export NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION
 export NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_TAG
 
+if [[ "${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_TAG}" != "${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_RUNTIME_TAG}" ]]; then
+    echo "ERROR: The nvidia-container-runtime and nvidia-container-toolkit version tags do not match"
+    exit  1
+fi
+
+if [[ "${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_TAG}" != "${NVIDIA_DOCKER_TAG}" ]]; then
+    echo "ERROR: The nvidia-docker and nvidia-container-toolkit version tags do not match"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 for target in ${targets[@]}; do
     ${SCRIPTS_DIR}/build-all-components.sh ${target}
 done