diff --git a/.github/workflows/scheduled.yml b/.github/workflows/scheduled.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6b66a892
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/scheduled.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+name: Scheduled 🕰️
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '45 3 * * 0'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  dependency-test:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        test-strategy: ["min_cohort", "min_isolated", "release", "max"]
+    uses: insightsengineering/r.pkg.template/.github/workflows/verdepcheck.yaml@main
+    name: Dependency Test - ${{ matrix.test-strategy }} 🔢
+    secrets:
+      REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      GCHAT_WEBHOOK: ${{ secrets.GCHAT_WEBHOOK }}
+    with:
+      strategy: ${{ matrix.test-strategy }}
+      additional-env-vars: |
+        PKG_SYSREQS_DRY_RUN=true
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8485ccd1..89208630 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -13,23 +13,37 @@ License: Apache License 2.0 | file LICENSE
 Depends:
     R (>= 4.0.0)
 Imports:
-    checkmate (>= 2.0),
-    dplyr,
+    checkmate (>= 2.1.0),
+    dplyr (>= 1.1.0),
     forcats (>= 1.0.0),
-    glue,
-    magrittr,
+    glue (>= 1.0.0),
+    magrittr (>= 1.5),
     methods,
-    rlang,
-    stringr,
-    tibble,
-    yaml
+    rlang (>= 1.0.0),
+    stringr (>= 1.4.1),
+    tibble (>= 1.2),
+    yaml (>= 2.1.15)
 Suggests:
-    knitr,
-    rmarkdown,
-    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
-    withr
+    knitr (>= 1.42),
+    rmarkdown (>= 2.19),
+    testthat (>= 3.0.4),
+    withr (>= 2.1.0)
 VignetteBuilder:
     knitr
+Config/Needs/verdepcheck:
+    mllg/checkmate,
+    tidyverse/dplyr,
+    tidyverse/forcats,
+    tidyverse/glue,
+    tidyverse/magrittr,
+    r-lib/rlang,
+    tidyverse/stringr,
+    tidyverse/tibble,
+    yaml=vubiostat/r-yaml,
+    yihui/knitr,
+    rstudio/rmarkdown,
+    r-lib/testthat,
+    r-lib/withr
 Config/Needs/website: insightsengineering/nesttemplate
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
@@ -37,7 +51,7 @@ Language: en-US
 LazyData: true
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
-Collate: 
+Collate:
     'assertions.R'
     'co_relevels.R'
     'cut_by_group.R'
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 3f08a0be..75343a57 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 * `empty_rule` is removed now. `rule()` will create a normal `rule` object.
 * By default `rule` are converting empty space `""` to `NA` upon reformatting.
 * `list2rule` now tolerates duplicated rules with different names.
+* Specified minimal version of package dependencies.
 
 # dunlin 0.1.4