diff --git a/dwds/lib/src/services/chrome_proxy_service.dart b/dwds/lib/src/services/chrome_proxy_service.dart
index 82c3bfaf4..221beac56 100644
--- a/dwds/lib/src/services/chrome_proxy_service.dart
+++ b/dwds/lib/src/services/chrome_proxy_service.dart
@@ -1049,6 +1049,13 @@ ${globalLoadStrategy.loadModuleSnippet}("dart_sdk").developer.invokeExtension(
     // TODO(https://github.com/dart-lang/webdev/issues/1446): implement.
     throw UnimplementedError();
   }
+
+  /// Prevent DWDS from blocking Dart SDK rolls if changes in package:vm_service
+  /// are unimplemented in DWDS.
+  @override
+  dynamic noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) {
+    return super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
+  }
 }
 
 /// The `type`s of [ConsoleAPIEvent]s that are treated as `stderr` logs.
diff --git a/dwds/pubspec.yaml b/dwds/pubspec.yaml
index dc511b34f..0152403b5 100644
--- a/dwds/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/dwds/pubspec.yaml
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ dependencies:
   stack_trace: ^1.10.0
   sse: ^4.1.0
   uuid: '>=2.0.0 <4.0.0'
-  # We pin the version because we implement the interface.
-  vm_service: 7.4.0
+  vm_service: ^7.4.0
   web_socket_channel: ^2.0.0
   webkit_inspection_protocol: ^1.0.0