diff --git a/exec/commands/src/dlx.ts b/exec/commands/src/dlx.ts
index c2b6a10932..daa0992c45 100644
--- a/exec/commands/src/dlx.ts
+++ b/exec/commands/src/dlx.ts
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ export async function handler (
     configByUri: opts.configByUri,
     fullMetadata,
     filterMetadata: fullMetadata,
+    strictPublishedByCheck: Boolean(opts.minimumReleaseAge) && opts.minimumReleaseAgeLoose === false,
     retry: {
       factor: opts.fetchRetryFactor,
       maxTimeout: opts.fetchRetryMaxtimeout,
diff --git a/installing/commands/test/add.ts b/installing/commands/test/add.ts
index c0a670fc8e..77597c8895 100644
--- a/installing/commands/test/add.ts
+++ b/installing/commands/test/add.ts
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ test('add: fail trying to install @pnpm/exe', async () => {
   expect(err.code).toBe('ERR_PNPM_GLOBAL_PNPM_INSTALL')
 })
 
-test('minimumReleaseAge makes install fail if there is no version that was published before the cutoff', async () => {
+test('minimumReleaseAge with minimumReleaseAgeLoose disabled makes install fail if there is no version that was published before the cutoff', async () => {
   prepareEmpty()
 
   const isOdd011ReleaseDate = new Date(2016, 11, 7 - 2) // 0.1.1 was released at 2016-12-07T07:18:01.205Z
diff --git a/installing/deps-installer/test/install/minimumReleaseAge.ts b/installing/deps-installer/test/install/minimumReleaseAge.ts
index fc8a0fe593..e32706fb86 100644
--- a/installing/deps-installer/test/install/minimumReleaseAge.ts
+++ b/installing/deps-installer/test/install/minimumReleaseAge.ts
@@ -66,11 +66,13 @@ test('minimumReleaseAge applies to versions not in minimumReleaseAgeExclude', as
 test('minimumReleaseAgeLoose falls back to immature version when no mature version satisfies the range', async () => {
   prepareEmpty()
 
-  // With loose mode (default), falls back to installing an immature version
+  // With loose mode (default), falls back to installing an immature version.
+  // The fallback picks the lowest matching version (0.1.0), which differs from
+  // normal resolution without minimumReleaseAge that would pick the highest (0.1.2).
   const opts = testDefaults({ minimumReleaseAge: allImmatureMinimumReleaseAge })
   const { updatedManifest: manifest } = await addDependenciesToPackage({}, ['is-odd@0.1'], opts)
 
-  expect(manifest.dependencies!['is-odd']).toBeTruthy()
+  expect(manifest.dependencies!['is-odd']).toBe('~0.1.0')
 })
 
 test('minimumReleaseAge throws when no mature version satisfies the range and loose mode is disabled', async () => {