diff --git a/.changes/config.json b/.changes/config.json
index 1da7b6223..ba67c3e4d 100644
--- a/.changes/config.json
+++ b/.changes/config.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "rust": {
       "errorOnVersionRange": "^2.0.0-0",
       "version": true,
-      "getPublishedVersion": "cargo search ${ pkgFile.pkg.package.name } --limit 1 | sed -nE \"s/^[^\\\"]*\\\"//; s/\\\".*//1p\"",
+      "getPublishedVersion": "node ../../.scripts/covector/package-latest-version.js cargo ${ pkgFile.pkg.package.name } ${ pkgFile.pkg.package.version }",
       "prepublish": [
         "sudo apt-get update",
         "sudo apt-get install -y libgtk-3-dev webkit2gtk-4.0 libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev patchelf",
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
     "javascript": {
       "errorOnVersionRange": "^2.0.0-0",
       "version": true,
-      "getPublishedVersion": "npm view ${ pkgFile.pkg.name } version",
+      "getPublishedVersion": "node ../../.scripts/covector/package-latest-version.js npm ${ pkgFile.pkg.name } ${ pkgFile.pkg.version }",
       "prepublish": [
         {
           "command": "yarn",
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
     "cli.js": {
       "path": "./tooling/cli/node",
       "manager": "javascript",
-      "dependencies": ["cli.rs"],
+      "getPublishedVersion": "node ../../../.scripts/covector/package-latest-version.js npm ${ pkgFile.pkg.name } ${ pkgFile.pkg.version }",
       "postversion": "node ../../../.scripts/covector/sync-cli-metadata.js ${ pkg.pkg } ${ release.type }",
       "prepublish": [],
       "publish": [],
diff --git a/.scripts/covector/package-latest-version.js b/.scripts/covector/package-latest-version.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1790290e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.scripts/covector/package-latest-version.js
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Copyright 2019-2022 Tauri Programme within The Commons Conservancy
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+/*
+This script is solely intended to be run as part of the `covector publish` step to
+check the latest version of a crate, considering the current minor version.
+*/
+
+const https = require('https')
+
+const kind = process.argv[2]
+const packageName = process.argv[3]
+const packageVersion = process.argv[4]
+const target = packageVersion.substring(0, packageVersion.lastIndexOf('.'))
+
+let url = null
+switch (kind) {
+  case 'cargo':
+    url = `https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/${packageName}`
+    break;
+  case 'npm':
+    url = `https://registry.npmjs.org/${packageName}`
+    break;
+  default:
+    throw new Error('unexpected kind ' + kind)
+}
+
+const options = {
+  headers: {
+    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+    'Accept': 'application/json',
+    'User-Agent': 'tauri (https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri)'
+  }
+}
+
+https.get(url, options, (response) => {
+  let chunks = []
+  response.on('data', function (chunk) {
+    chunks.push(chunk)
+  })
+
+  response.on('end', function () {
+    const data = JSON.parse(chunks.join(''))
+    if (kind === 'cargo') {
+      const versions = data.versions.filter(v => v.num.startsWith(target))
+      console.log(versions.length ? versions[0].num : '0.0.0')
+    } else if (kind === 'npm') {
+      const versions = Object.keys(data.versions).filter(v => v.startsWith(target))
+      console.log(versions[versions.length - 1] || '0.0.0')
+    }
+  })
+})