diff --git a/newsfragments/+beartype-0.23.change.md b/newsfragments/+beartype-0.23.change.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..78705103b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/+beartype-0.23.change.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Require `beartype>=0.23.0` for runtime type checking.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2c90e5c11..a869c1b17 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ dynamic = [
     "version",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "beartype>=0.22.9",
+    "beartype>=0.23.0",
     "httpx>=0.28.0",
     "httpx2>=2.12",
     "requests>=2.32.3",
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ urls.Source = "https://github.com/VWS-Python/vws-python"
 [dependency-groups]
 dev = [
     "actionlint-py==1.7.12.25",
-    "beartype==0.23.0rc2",
+    "beartype==0.23.0",
     "check-manifest==0.51",
     "deptry==0.25.1",
     "doc8==2.0.0",