diff --git a/projects/jupyter-collaboration/pyproject.toml b/projects/jupyter-collaboration/pyproject.toml
index 951e58a1..e0c0bbeb 100644
--- a/projects/jupyter-collaboration/pyproject.toml
+++ b/projects/jupyter-collaboration/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ classifiers = [
     "Framework :: Jupyter :: JupyterLab :: Extensions :: Prebuilt",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "jupyter-server-ydoc>=1.0.0a0",
-    "jupyter-collaboration-ui>=1.0.0a0",
-    "jupyter-docprovider>=1.0.0a0"
+    "jupyter-server-ydoc>=1.0.0b1",
+    "jupyter-collaboration-ui>=1.0.0b1",
+    "jupyter-docprovider>=1.0.0b1"
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 47402e45..4ba3d035 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
 dev = [
     "click",
     "pre-commit",
-    "jupyter_releaser"
+    "jupyter_releaser",
+    "tomlkit"
 ]
 test = [
     "jupyter-server-ydoc[test] @ {root:uri}/projects/jupyter-server-ydoc",
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ before-build-python = [
     "jlpm clean:lib"
 ]
 before-bump-version = [
-    "python -m pip install -U jupyterlab",
+    "python -m pip install -U jupyterlab tomlkit",
     "jlpm"
 ]
 
diff --git a/scripts/bump_version.py b/scripts/bump_version.py
index d71e1ec2..805e4512 100644
--- a/scripts/bump_version.py
+++ b/scripts/bump_version.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import click
+import tomlkit
 from jupyter_releaser.util import get_version, run
 from pkg_resources import parse_version  # type: ignore
 
@@ -80,6 +81,8 @@ def bump(force, skip_if_dirty, spec):
 
     HERE = Path(__file__).parent.parent.resolve()
 
+    project_pins = {}
+
     # bump the Python packages
     for version_file in HERE.glob("projects/**/_version.py"):
         content = version_file.read_text().splitlines()
@@ -92,6 +95,19 @@ def bump(force, skip_if_dirty, spec):
         current = current.strip("'\"")
         version_spec = increment_version(current, spec)
         version_file.write_text(f'__version__ = "{version_spec}"\n')
+        project = version_file.parent.name
+        project_pins[project] = version_spec
+
+    # bump the required version in jupyter-collaboration metapackage
+    # to ensure that users can just upgrade `jupyter-collaboration`
+    # and get all fixes for free
+    metapackage = "jupyter-collaboration"
+    metapackage_toml_path = HERE / "projects" / metapackage / "pyproject.toml"
+    metapackage_toml = tomlkit.parse(metapackage_toml_path.read_text())
+    metapackage_toml["dependencies"] = [
+        key + ">=" + project_pins[key] for key in sorted(project_pins) if key != metapackage
+    ]
+    metapackage_toml_path.write_text(tomlkit.dumps(metapackage_toml))
 
     path = HERE.joinpath("package.json")
     if path.exists():