diff --git a/eic-spack.sh b/eic-spack.sh
index ff2b84e05646f0da1dee7d37db02ad7042818716..0c428ce7cb122bb315ab424a59ab0ca405471644 100644
--- a/eic-spack.sh
+++ b/eic-spack.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ EICSPACK_ORGREPO="eic/eic-spack"
 
 ## EIC spack github version, e.g. v0.19.7 or commit hash
 ## note: nightly builds will use e.g. releases/v0.19
-EICSPACK_VERSION="backport-487-to-releases/v0.20"
+EICSPACK_VERSION="v0.20.5"
 
 ## Space-separated list of eic-spack cherry-picks
 read -r -d '' EICSPACK_CHERRYPICKS <<- \