diff --git a/.github/workflows/scheduled.yml b/.github/workflows/scheduled.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6b66a892ca
--- /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 20d3593bfa..93d5606093 100755
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -23,33 +23,33 @@ BugReports: https://github.com/insightsengineering/chevron/issues
 Depends:
     R (>= 4.0.0)
 Imports:
-    checkmate (>= 2.0),
-    dplyr,
+    checkmate (>= 2.1.0),
+    dplyr (>= 1.1.0),
     dunlin (>= 0.1.6.9002),
     forcats (>= 1.0.0),
     formatters (>= 0.5.4),
     ggplot2 (>= 3.4.0),
-    glue,
+    glue (>= 1.0.0),
     grid,
-    lifecycle,
-    magrittr,
+    lifecycle (>= 0.2.0),
+    magrittr (>= 1.5),
     methods,
     nestcolor (>= 0.1.1),
-    purrr,
-    rlang,
+    purrr (>= 0.3.0),
+    rlang (>= 1.0.0),
     rlistings (>= 0.2.6),
     rtables (>= 0.6.5),
-    stringr,
+    stringr (>= 1.4.1),
     tern (>= 0.9.2),
-    tibble,
+    tibble (>= 2.0.0),
     utils
 Suggests:
-    knitr,
-    rmarkdown,
-    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
-    tidyr,
-    vdiffr,
-    withr
+    knitr (>= 1.42),
+    rmarkdown (>= 2.19),
+    testthat (>= 3.0.4),
+    tidyr (>= 0.8.3),
+    vdiffr (>= 1.0.0),
+    withr (>= 2.1.0)
 VignetteBuilder:
     knitr
 Remotes:
@@ -59,6 +59,30 @@ Remotes:
     insightsengineering/rlistings@*release,
     insightsengineering/rtables@*release,
     insightsengineering/tern@*release
+Config/Needs/verdepcheck:
+    mllg/checkmate,
+    tidyverse/dplyr,
+    insightsengineering/dunlin,
+    tidyverse/forcats,
+    insightsengineering/formatters,
+    tidyverse/ggplot2,
+    tidyverse/glue,
+    r-lib/lifecycle,
+    tidyverse/magrittr,
+    insightsengineering/nestcolor,
+    tidyverse/purrr,
+    r-lib/rlang,
+    insightsengineering/rlistings,
+    insightsengineering/rtables,
+    tidyverse/stringr,
+    insightsengineering/tern,
+    tidyverse/tibble,
+    yihui/knitr,
+    rstudio/rmarkdown,
+    r-lib/testthat,
+    tidyverse/tidyr,
+    r-lib/vdiffr,
+    r-lib/withr
 Config/Needs/website: insightsengineering/nesttemplate
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 59e6787af5..62d7f94157 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 * Rename the dataset `ADAETTE` in `syn_data` object to `ADSAFTTE`.
 * Use uppercase variable names in `AET05` and `AET05_ALL`.
 * The string replacing `NA` values in the tables is now controlled by the `tern_default_na_str` option set during package load.
+* Specified minimal version of package dependencies.
 
 # chevron 0.2.4
 
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ switched.
 
 # chevron 0.2.0
 
-* Remove the usage of `dm` class of object. The chevron functions now expect list of `data.frame` as `adam_db` argument. 
+* Remove the usage of `dm` class of object. The chevron functions now expect list of `data.frame` as `adam_db` argument.
 * Remove variants in template names.
 * Remove deprecated `getter` functions `get_main`, `get_preprocess` and `get_postprocess`.
 * Simplify `pre` function and add more data checks in `main` function.