diff --git a/.github/workflows/scheduled.yaml b/.github/workflows/scheduled.yaml
index 62afcda85..df66705fe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scheduled.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scheduled.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        test-strategy: ["min", "release", "max"]
+        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:
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a3e4be19e..40df58b34 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -18,30 +18,38 @@ Description: We provide a framework for rendering complex tables to ASCII,
 License: Apache License 2.0
 URL: https://github.com/insightsengineering/formatters
 BugReports: https://github.com/insightsengineering/formatters/issues
-Depends: 
+Depends:
     methods,
     R (>= 2.10)
-Imports: 
-    checkmate,
+Imports:
+    checkmate (>= 2.1.0),
     grid,
-    htmltools
+    htmltools (>= 0.5.3)
 Suggests:
-    dplyr,
+    dplyr (>= 1.0.9),
     gt (>= 0.7.0),
-    huxtable,
-    knitr,
-    r2rtf,
-    rmarkdown,
-    testthat
-VignetteBuilder: 
+    huxtable (>= 2.0.0),
+    knitr (>= 1.42),
+    r2rtf (>= 0.3.2),
+    testthat (>= 3.0.4)
+VignetteBuilder:
     knitr
+Config/Needs/verdepcheck:
+    mllg/checkmate,
+    rstudio/htmltools,
+    tidyverse/dplyr,
+    rstudio/gt,
+    hughjonesd/huxtable,
+    yihui/knitr,
+    Merck/r2rtf,
+    r-lib/testthat
 Config/Needs/website: insightsengineering/nesttemplate
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Language: en-US
 LazyData: true
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
-Collate: 
+Collate:
     'data.R'
     'format_value.R'
     'matrix_form.R'
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 9931042fb..2dedbe778 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 ## formatters 0.5.2.9001
+  * Specified minimal version of package dependencies.
 
 ## formatters 0.5.2
  * `paginate_to_mpfs` can handle single column tables and listings.