diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-petsc4py/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-petsc4py/package.py
index 383c11fd948e955d789174b5d712c0684b990e9a..8047af9ecd48380654ef1be629ff1981a707080b 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-petsc4py/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-petsc4py/package.py
@@ -28,11 +28,16 @@
 class PyPetsc4py(PythonPackage):
     """This package provides Python bindings for the PETSc package.
     """
+
     homepage = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/petsc4py"
-    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/petsc4py/petsc4py-3.7.0.tar.gz"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/petsc4py/petsc4py-3.8.1.tar.gz"
 
+    version('3.8.1', '5157220c2b81765c581d2b17c03259f8')
+    version('3.8.0', '02029be4bdec904854f0e0692005fb06')
     version('3.7.0', '816a20040a6a477bd637f397c9fb5b6d')
 
+    depends_on('python@2.6:2.8,3.3:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-numpy', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('py-mpi4py', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('petsc+mpi')