diff --git a/projects/jupyter-collaboration/pyproject.toml b/projects/jupyter-collaboration/pyproject.toml
index aa6ef424..a4d085c9 100644
--- a/projects/jupyter-collaboration/pyproject.toml
+++ b/projects/jupyter-collaboration/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
 # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
-dependencies = ["jupyter_collaboration>=3.0.0b8", "jupyter_collaboration_ui>=1.0.0b8", "jupyter_docprovider>=1.0.0b8", "jupyter_server_ydoc>=1.0.0b8"]
 
 [build-system]
 build-backend = "hatchling.build"
@@ -30,9 +29,9 @@ classifiers = [
     "Framework :: Jupyter :: JupyterLab :: Extensions :: Prebuilt",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "jupyter-server-ydoc>=1.0.0b1",
-    "jupyter-collaboration-ui>=1.0.0b1",
-    "jupyter-docprovider>=1.0.0b1"
+    "jupyter-server-ydoc>=1.0.0b8",
+    "jupyter-collaboration-ui>=1.0.0b8",
+    "jupyter-docprovider>=1.0.0b8"
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 37951656..32e7cecd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ packages = [
 allow-direct-references = true
 
 [tool.jupyter-releaser]
-skip = ["check-links"]
+skip = ["check-links", "check-python"]
 
 [tool.jupyter-releaser.options]
 # `--skip-if-dirty` is a workaround for https://github.com/jupyter-server/jupyter_releaser/issues/567
diff --git a/scripts/bump_version.py b/scripts/bump_version.py
index 5f0c68da..656e4aef 100644
--- a/scripts/bump_version.py
+++ b/scripts/bump_version.py
@@ -100,13 +100,17 @@ def bump(force, skip_if_dirty, spec):
 
     # bump the required version in jupyter-collaboration metapackage
     # to ensure that users can just upgrade `jupyter-collaboration`
-    # and get all fixes for free
+    # and get all fixes for free.
+    # Formatting based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70721025/tomlkit-nicely-formatted-array-with-inline-tables
     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.get("project").remove("dependencies")
+    dependencies = tomlkit.array()
+    for key in sorted(project_pins):
+        if key != metapackage.replace("-", "_"):
+            dependencies.add_line(key + ">=" + project_pins[key])
+    metapackage_toml.get("project").add("dependencies", dependencies.multiline(True))
     metapackage_toml_path.write_text(tomlkit.dumps(metapackage_toml))
 
     path = HERE.joinpath("package.json")