diff --git a/eic-spack.sh b/eic-spack.sh
index 06f5e3df4b317f3f713d88f0a39ad21a19f8adfa..4aaf2dba56a80a11206453eb4765a379095dcfac 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="v0.20.8"
+EICSPACK_VERSION="v0.20.9"
 
 ## Space-separated list of eic-spack cherry-picks
 read -r -d '' EICSPACK_CHERRYPICKS <<- \