diff --git a/changelog/13317.packaging.rst b/changelog/13317.packaging.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..94171cb1ef3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/13317.packaging.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Specified minimum allowed versions of ``colorama``, ``iniconfig``,
+and ``packaging``; and bumped the minimum allowed version
+of ``exceptiongroup`` for ``python_version<'3.11'`` from a release
+candidate to a full release.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 263e0c23836..94a1b78d009 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ dynamic = [
     "version",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "colorama; sys_platform=='win32'",
-    "exceptiongroup>=1.0.0rc8; python_version<'3.11'",
-    "iniconfig",
-    "packaging",
+    "colorama>=0.4; sys_platform=='win32'",
+    "exceptiongroup>=1; python_version<'3.11'",
+    "iniconfig>=1",
+    "packaging>=20",
     "pluggy>=1.5,<2",
     "pygments>=2.7.2",
     "tomli>=1; python_version<'3.11'",