diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index aec446d822a..6ca4941abad 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ egui_extras = { version = "0.29.1", path = "crates/egui_extras", default-feature
 egui-wgpu = { version = "0.29.1", path = "crates/egui-wgpu", default-features = false }
 egui_demo_lib = { version = "0.29.1", path = "crates/egui_demo_lib", default-features = false }
 egui_glow = { version = "0.29.1", path = "crates/egui_glow", default-features = false }
+egui_kittest = { version = "0.29.1", path = "crates/egui_kittest", default-features = false }
 eframe = { version = "0.29.1", path = "crates/eframe", default-features = false }
 
 ahash = { version = "0.8.11", default-features = false, features = [
diff --git a/crates/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml b/crates/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
index a00657ea1f0..e98bf5d3406 100644
--- a/crates/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/egui_demo_lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ serde = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 egui_demo_lib = { features = ["chrono"], workspace = true }
 
 criterion.workspace = true
-egui_kittest = { path = "../egui_kittest", features = ["wgpu", "snapshot"] }
+egui_kittest = { workspace = true, features = ["default", "wgpu", "snapshot"] }
 wgpu = { workspace = true, features = ["metal"] }
 egui = { workspace = true, features = ["default_fonts"] }
 
diff --git a/crates/egui_kittest/Cargo.toml b/crates/egui_kittest/Cargo.toml
index 03a78a5556b..4f1c435d7f8 100644
--- a/crates/egui_kittest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/egui_kittest/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ default = ["image?/png"]
 
 [dependencies]
 accesskit_consumer = "0.24.0"
-kittest = { git = "https://github.com/rerun-io/kittest", branch = "kittest" }
+kittest = { git = "https://github.com/rerun-io/kittest", version = "0.1", branch = "kittest" }
 egui = { workspace = true, features = ["accesskit"] }
 
 # wgpu dependencies
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index f5291700dfc..5c946782b35 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ skip = [
   { name = "windows-core" },   # old version via accesskit_windows
   { name = "windows" },        # old version via accesskit_windows
   { name = "glow" },           # wgpu uses an old `glow`, but realistically no one uses _both_ `egui_wgpu` and `egui_glow`, so we won't get a duplicate dependency
-
 ]
 skip-tree = [
   { name = "criterion" },     # dev-dependency
@@ -109,3 +108,7 @@ license-files = [{ path = "LICENSE", hash = 0xbd0eed23 }]
 [sources]
 unknown-registry = "deny"
 unknown-git = "deny"
+
+allow-git = [
+  "https://github.com/rerun-io/kittest",  # TODO(lucasmerlin): remove this once the kittest crate is published"
+]