diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8011c232..9791dc53 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ See [design notes](doc/design.md)
 ## Dependencies
 
 Dependencies likely available in your package manager:
-- [`meson`](https://mesonbuild.com/) version 1.1 or newer
-- [`fmt`](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt) version 10 or newer
+- [`meson`](https://mesonbuild.com/)
+- [`fmt`](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt)
 
 Dependencies you may need to build yourself, unless available on a Jefferson Lab computer:
 - [`hipo`](https://github.com/gavalian/hipo)
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 19d3ee2b..2040ae6e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ project(
   version: '0.0.0',
   license: 'LGPLv3',
   default_options: [ 'cpp_std=c++17' ],
+  meson_version: '>=1.1'
 )
 
 project_inc = include_directories('src')
@@ -16,8 +17,8 @@ endforeach
 project_lib_rpath = '$ORIGIN'
 project_bin_rpath = ':'.join( dep_lib_rpaths + [ '$ORIGIN/../' + get_option('libdir') ] )
 
-hipo_dep = dependency('hipo4')
-fmt_dep  = dependency('fmt')
+hipo_dep = dependency('hipo4', version: '>=1.3')
+fmt_dep  = dependency('fmt', version: '>=9.1.0')
 
 subdir('src/services')
 subdir('src/algorithms')