diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d026721913328f24b4eba9d5f550a833dba72727..01ccd83450b7029b1797129ec9d2a91f797d9bb3 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ variables:
   ## b5ef5c2eb5145020f9de1bcb964626ce6ac2d02e: geant4: version bumps for Geant4 11.1.0
   ## 99056e03bd3e903b222e300636ec484d85d4b3fb: acts: new versions 19.11.0, 21.0.0, 21.1.0
   ## f3f8b31be54280c6ef0b5f95ab85604aba3dff30: XRootD: add checksum + patch for 5.5.1 
+  ## f2b0c1deab87da3b5aa4c1f2ef4d6af06fa4e32d: py-minkowskiengine: new package (sparse tensor autodiff by Nvidia)
 
   ## EIC spack organization and repository, e.g. eic/eic-spack
   EICSPACK_ORGREPO: "eic/eic-spack"
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index 1e936c00677063f093940fd0c71b3c0134d9dd0f..0c967f89f4b3702eb105179b80040b70c6a68641 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ spack:
     - pythia8@8.306 +fastjet
     - python@3.10.8
     - py-boto3@1.18.12
+    - py-minkowskiengine@0.5.4
     - py-numpy@1.23.4
     - py-pip@22.2.2
     - py-toml@0.10.2