diff --git a/validation/README.md b/validation/README.md
index 06b23f1..6a6e337 100644
--- a/validation/README.md
+++ b/validation/README.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The most important part of the configuration (`basic/nextflow.config`) are:
 
 ``` 
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 ```
 
@@ -85,8 +85,17 @@ you can test some pipelines from your terminal using the `--nfazure` argument
 
 - `./run-all.sh --skiplocal --nfazure` run only remote pipelines
 
+### Test published version
 
+In case you want to run the validation using a published version (for example, 0.1.2-edge3 release), you can run:
 
+```
+export NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION=0.1.2-edge3
+
+export NXF_PLUGINS_TEST_REPOSITORY="https://github.com/nextflow-io/nf-nomad/releases/download/0.1.2-edge3/nf-nomad-0.1.2-edge3-meta.json"
+
+./run-all.sh
+```
 
 ## Stop the cluster
 
@@ -95,4 +104,4 @@ cd validation
 sudo ./stop-nomad.sh
 ```
 
-This command try to clean and kill the nomad process unmounting temp folders created by the client
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+This command tries to clean and kill the nomad process unmounting temp folders created by the client
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diff --git a/validation/az-nomadlab/2-volumes.config b/validation/az-nomadlab/2-volumes.config
index 9848801..3cb5da8 100644
--- a/validation/az-nomadlab/2-volumes.config
+++ b/validation/az-nomadlab/2-volumes.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 
 process {
diff --git a/validation/az-nomadlab/nextflow.config b/validation/az-nomadlab/nextflow.config
index f155bd5..2e62bfd 100644
--- a/validation/az-nomadlab/nextflow.config
+++ b/validation/az-nomadlab/nextflow.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 
 process {
diff --git a/validation/basic/nextflow.config b/validation/basic/nextflow.config
index 7183c4a..8d783bd 100644
--- a/validation/basic/nextflow.config
+++ b/validation/basic/nextflow.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 
 process {
diff --git a/validation/constraints/node-nextflow.config b/validation/constraints/node-nextflow.config
index 99077e5..de2118b 100644
--- a/validation/constraints/node-nextflow.config
+++ b/validation/constraints/node-nextflow.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 
 process {
diff --git a/validation/directives/nextflow.config b/validation/directives/nextflow.config
index ea9f320..e6628fe 100644
--- a/validation/directives/nextflow.config
+++ b/validation/directives/nextflow.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 
 process {
diff --git a/validation/multiple-volumes/2-volumes.config b/validation/multiple-volumes/2-volumes.config
index b622801..8c42865 100644
--- a/validation/multiple-volumes/2-volumes.config
+++ b/validation/multiple-volumes/2-volumes.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 
 process {
diff --git a/validation/multiple-volumes/3-volumes.config b/validation/multiple-volumes/3-volumes.config
index d409ce6..a25c115 100644
--- a/validation/multiple-volumes/3-volumes.config
+++ b/validation/multiple-volumes/3-volumes.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 
 process {
diff --git a/validation/stop-nomad.sh b/validation/stop-nomad.sh
index b91a42d..85f2ae1 100755
--- a/validation/stop-nomad.sh
+++ b/validation/stop-nomad.sh
@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@
 ./nomad system gc
 sleep 1
 df -h --output=target | grep nf-task | xargs sudo umount
-pkill -9 nomad
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+pkill -9 nomad
+sleep 1
+rm -rf nomad_temp
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diff --git a/validation/sun-nomadlab/nextflow.config b/validation/sun-nomadlab/nextflow.config
index 263a7e1..eed649f 100644
--- a/validation/sun-nomadlab/nextflow.config
+++ b/validation/sun-nomadlab/nextflow.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'nf-nomad@latest'
+    id "nf-nomad@${System.getenv("NOMAD_PLUGIN_VERSION") ?: "latest"}"
 }
 
 process {