diff --git a/lib/prepare.js b/lib/prepare.js
index 3e76bec44cf595a1b4141728336bed904d4d518d..4b25ca64879bbee2a600f2b23b738c86136ad9c6 100644
--- a/lib/prepare.js
+++ b/lib/prepare.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import path from "path";
-import { move } from "fs-extra";
+import { rename, readFile, writeFile } from "fs/promises";
 import { execa } from "execa";
+import detectIndent from 'detect-indent';
 
 export default async function (
   npmrc,
@@ -11,19 +12,13 @@ export default async function (
 
   logger.log("Write version %s to package.json in %s", version, basePath);
 
-  const versionResult = execa(
-    "npm",
-    ["version", version, "--userconfig", npmrc, "--no-git-tag-version", "--allow-same-version"],
-    {
-      cwd: basePath,
-      env,
-      preferLocal: true,
-    }
-  );
-  versionResult.stdout.pipe(stdout, { end: false });
-  versionResult.stderr.pipe(stderr, { end: false });
+  const pkgJsonPath = path.join(basePath, 'package.json')
+  const pkgJsonRaw = (await readFile(pkgJsonPath)).toString()
+  const pkgJson = JSON.parse(pkgJsonRaw)
+  pkgJson.version = version
 
-  await versionResult;
+  await writeFile(pkgJsonPath, JSON.stringify(pkgJson, null, detectIndent(pkgJsonRaw).indent))
+  await execa("bun", ["install"]);
 
   if (tarballDir) {
     logger.log("Creating npm package version %s", version);
@@ -38,7 +33,7 @@ export default async function (
     // Only move the tarball if we need to
     // Fixes: https://github.com/semantic-release/npm/issues/169
     if (tarballSource !== tarballDestination) {
-      await move(tarballSource, tarballDestination);
+      await rename(tarballSource, tarballDestination);
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e716bf6b35130c168ab7c4babc89a0346aacc9ad..e372de1ca5967509a6769db88ff967e1039b03ac 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@semantic-release/error": "^4.0.0",
     "aggregate-error": "^5.0.0",
+    "detect-indent": "^7.0.1",
     "execa": "^9.0.0",
     "fs-extra": "^11.0.0",
     "lodash-es": "^4.17.21",