diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 4dd262d..8d97000 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -331,23 +331,37 @@ jobs:
           echo "   Platform packages: 7"
           echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
 
-      - name: update Package.swift checksum and version
+      - name: update Package.swift and the package versions
         if: steps.tag.outputs.version != ''
         run: |
           VERSION=${{ steps.tag.outputs.version }}
+
+          # The versions the steps above publish under are written into the working copy but were
+          # never committed, so the repository kept showing whatever it was last committed with:
+          # packages/node/package.json said 1.1.14 and the Flutter pubspec 1.2.3 while the
+          # extension was at 1.4.1. For the node package that was not only confusing, since its
+          # optionalDependencies pinned the seven platform packages to that old version too, so
+          # an npm install in packages/node fetched binaries from long before the current source.
+          # package.json was rewritten by the publish step above; the pubspec is rewritten by
+          # flutter-package.yml after the tag, so it is done here as well to commit it with the
+          # rest. Its sed there is then a no-op, and stays as the safety net it is.
+          sed -i "s/^version: .*/version: $VERSION/" packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml
+
           ZIP="js-apple-xcframework-${VERSION}.zip"
           if [ -f "$ZIP" ]; then
             CHECKSUM=$(swift package compute-checksum "$ZIP")
             URL="https://github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-js/releases/download/${VERSION}/${ZIP}"
             sed -i "s|url: \".*apple-xcframework.*\"|url: \"${URL}\"|" Package.swift
             sed -i "s|checksum: \".*\"|checksum: \"${CHECKSUM}\"|" Package.swift
-            git config --global user.email "$GITHUB_ACTOR@users.noreply.github.com"
-            git config --global user.name "$GITHUB_ACTOR"
-            git add Package.swift
-            git commit -m "Update Package.swift checksum for ${VERSION} [auto-update]" || true
-            git push origin main || true
           fi
 
+          git config --global user.email "$GITHUB_ACTOR@users.noreply.github.com"
+          git config --global user.name "$GITHUB_ACTOR"
+          git add Package.swift packages/node/package.json packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml
+          # [auto-update] keeps the build job from running again for this commit
+          git commit -m "Update Package.swift and the package versions for ${VERSION} [auto-update]" || true
+          git push origin main || true
+
       - uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2.2.1
         if: steps.tag.outputs.version != ''
         with:
diff --git a/packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml b/packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml
index fac5c48..97f70a7 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: sqlite_js
-version: 1.2.3
+version: 1.4.2
 description: >
   SQLite JS is a powerful extension that brings JavaScript capabilities to SQLite.
   With this extension, you can create custom SQLite functions, aggregates, 
diff --git a/packages/node/package.json b/packages/node/package.json
index 2f99688..1e03d44 100644
--- a/packages/node/package.json
+++ b/packages/node/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@sqliteai/sqlite-js",
-  "version": "1.1.14",
+  "version": "1.4.2",
   "description": "SQLite JS extension for Node.js - Custom SQLite functions in JavaScript",
   "main": "./dist/index.js",
   "module": "./dist/index.mjs",
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@
     "node": ">=16.0.0"
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {
-    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-darwin-arm64": "1.1.14",
-    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-darwin-x86_64": "1.1.14",
-    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-linux-arm64": "1.1.14",
-    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-linux-arm64-musl": "1.1.14",
-    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-linux-x86_64": "1.1.14",
-    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-linux-x86_64-musl": "1.1.14",
-    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-win32-x86_64": "1.1.14"
+    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-darwin-arm64": "1.4.2",
+    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-darwin-x86_64": "1.4.2",
+    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-linux-arm64": "1.4.2",
+    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-linux-arm64-musl": "1.4.2",
+    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-linux-x86_64": "1.4.2",
+    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-linux-x86_64-musl": "1.4.2",
+    "@sqliteai/sqlite-js-win32-x86_64": "1.4.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^20.0.0",