diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8f16503..407cf0b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ worktable_codegen = { path = "codegen", version = "^1.0.0-beta.18" }
 # whose documentation says to read it with `worktable_dsl::Schema::parse`; that
 # instruction is only true if a plain `worktable` dependency can reach the
 # crate.
-worktable_dsl = { path = "dsl", version = "^1.0.0-beta.18" }
+worktable_dsl = { path = "dsl", version = "^1.0.0-beta.18.1" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 chrono = "0.4"
diff --git a/codegen/Cargo.toml b/codegen/Cargo.toml
index bafbabb..5b3c9a5 100644
--- a/codegen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/codegen/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,12 +20,10 @@ proc-macro = true
 [dependencies]
 # The schema language, extracted so consumers other than this macro can read
 # a declaration. See its crate docs for why that needed a separate crate.
-# Exact, deliberately, while these are pre-releases. A caret requirement does
-# not match a pre-release at all (`^1.0` will not resolve `1.0.0-beta.17`), and
-# these three crates are one release train: the macro generates code against a
-# specific runtime, so they must move together. Every other dependency here is
-# a caret at minor granularity.
-worktable_dsl = { path = "../dsl", version = "^1.0.0-beta.18" }
+# Name the pre-release floor explicitly while retaining the workspace's caret
+# policy. beta.18.1 is the first DSL artifact that exports every validator this
+# code generator calls; beta.18 was published before that API landed.
+worktable_dsl = { path = "../dsl", version = "^1.0.0-beta.18.1" }
 rkyv = { version = "0.8" }
 syn = { version = "2", features = ["full"] }
 quote = "1"
diff --git a/dsl/Cargo.toml b/dsl/Cargo.toml
index 264414f..e75af8f 100644
--- a/dsl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/dsl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "worktable_dsl"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.18"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.18.1"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MIT"
 description = "The worktable! schema language: its model and parser, readable outside the proc macro"