diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c5e3f2ba..d26174f0 100755
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: autoslider.core
 Title: Slide Automation for Tables, Listings and Figures
-Version: 0.2.2.9003
+Version: 0.2.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Joe", "Zhu", , "joe.zhu@roche.com", role = c("cre", "aut"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7566-2787")),
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Imports:
     rvg (>= 0.2.5),
     stringr,
     survival,
-    tern (>= 0.9.6.9018),
+    tern (>= 0.9.7),
     tidyr,
     yaml
 Suggests:
@@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ Suggests:
 VignetteBuilder:
     knitr,
     rmarkdown
-Remotes: 
-    insightsengineering/tern@main
 Config/Needs/verdepcheck: insightsengineering/formatters,
     tidyverse/magrittr, mllg/checkmate, rstudio/htmltools,
     gagolews/stringi, tidymodels/broom, cran/car, tidyverse/dplyr,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e85c6626..0e50a6c0 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-# autoslider.core 0.2.2.9003
+# autoslider.core 0.2.3
+
+### Miscellaneous
+
+ * Align upstream packages (formatters/rtables/rlistings/tern) to the latest releases. 
 
 # autoslider.core 0.2.2
 
diff --git a/R/t_dor_slide.R b/R/t_dor_slide.R
index 1187d900..5f9e3912 100755
--- a/R/t_dor_slide.R
+++ b/R/t_dor_slide.R
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ t_dor_slide <- function(adsl, adtte, arm = "TRT01P", refgroup = NULL) {
     count_values(
       vars = "USUBJID",
       values = unique(adtte$USUBJID),
-      .labels = "Responders",
+      .labels = c(count = "Responders"),
       .stats = "count"
     ) %>%
     analyze_vars(
diff --git a/inst/WORDLIST b/inst/WORDLIST
index 558f46b0..f06c181b 100644
--- a/inst/WORDLIST
+++ b/inst/WORDLIST
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ eg
 expr
 flextable
 fontsize
+formatters
 ggplot
 github
 headerlines
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ ppt
 rds
 repo
 reusability
+rlistings
 rtable
 rtables
 scaler