diff --git a/ci/build_wheel.sh b/ci/build_wheel.sh
index 0cb197f8..4b9265b4 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
+package_name="cuxfilter"
+package_dir="python"
+
 source rapids-configure-sccache
 source rapids-date-string
 
@@ -12,12 +15,35 @@ version_override="$(rapids-pip-wheel-version ${RAPIDS_DATE_STRING})"
 
 RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX="$(rapids-wheel-ctk-name-gen ${RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION})"
 
-ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh ${version_override} "-${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}"
-echo "The package name and/or version was modified in the package source. The git diff is:"
-git diff
+# This is the version of the suffix with a preceding hyphen. It's used
+# everywhere except in the final wheel name.
+PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX="-${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}"
+
+# Patch project metadata files to include the CUDA version suffix and version override.
+pyproject_file="${package_dir}/pyproject.toml"
+
+sed -i "s/^version = .*/version = \"${version_override}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+sed -i "s/name = \"${package_name}\"/name = \"${package_name}${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+
+# For nightlies we want to ensure that we're pulling in alphas as well. The
+# easiest way to do so is to augment the spec with a constraint containing a
+# min alpha version that doesn't affect the version bounds but does allow usage
+# of alpha versions for that dependency without --pre
+alpha_spec=''
+if ! rapids-is-release-build; then
+    alpha_spec=',>=0.0.0a0'
+fi
+
+sed -r -i "s/cudf==(.*)\"/cudf${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}==\1${alpha_spec}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+sed -r -i "s/dask_cudf==(.*)\"/dask_cudf${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}==\1${alpha_spec}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+sed -r -i "s/cuspatial==(.*)\"/cuspatial${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}==\1${alpha_spec}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+
+if [[ $PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX == "-cu12" ]]; then
+    sed -i "s/cupy-cuda11x/cupy-cuda12x/g" ${pyproject_file}
+fi
 
-cd python
+cd "${package_dir}"
 
 python -m pip wheel . -w dist -vvv --no-deps --disable-pip-version-check
 
-RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_NAME="cuxfilter_${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}" rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3 dist
+RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_NAME="${package_name}_${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}" rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3 dist
diff --git a/ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh b/ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 4af9765b..00000000
--- a/ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
-#
-# Usage: bash apply_wheel_modifications.sh <new_version> <cuda_suffix>
-
-VERSION=${1}
-CUDA_SUFFIX=${2}
-
-# pyproject.toml versions
-sed -i "s/^version = .*/version = \"${VERSION}\"/g" python/pyproject.toml
-
-# cuxfilter pyproject.toml cuda suffixes
-sed -i "s/^name = \"cuxfilter\"/name = \"cuxfilter${CUDA_SUFFIX}\"/g" python/pyproject.toml
-# Need to provide the == to avoid modifying the URL
-sed -i "s/\"cudf==/\"cudf${CUDA_SUFFIX}==/g" python/pyproject.toml
-sed -i "s/\"cuspatial==/\"cuspatial${CUDA_SUFFIX}==/g" python/pyproject.toml
-sed -i "s/\"dask-cudf==/\"dask-cudf${CUDA_SUFFIX}==/g" python/pyproject.toml
-
-if [[ $CUDA_SUFFIX == "-cu12" ]]; then
-    sed -i "s/cupy-cuda11x/cupy-cuda12x/g" python/pyproject.toml
-fi