diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/xios/bld_extern_1.x.patch b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/xios/bld_extern_1.x.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fe52da119232e5e264ff5e1782bf628ffe5f5e44..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/xios/bld_extern_1.x.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- a/bld.cfg	2017-12-23 15:21:01.458603785 +1100
-+++ b/bld.cfg	2017-12-23 15:36:36.667684136 +1100
-@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@
- 
- search_src           true
- src::zzz .
--src::date $PWD/extern/boost/src/date_time
--src::blitz $PWD/extern/blitz/src
--src::netcdf $PWD/extern/netcdf4
- src::remap $PWD/extern/remap/src
- bld::lib xios
- bld::target libxios.a 
-@@ -46,11 +43,11 @@
- bld::tool::fc        %FCOMPILER
- bld::tool::fpp       %FPP
- bld::tool::cpp       %CPP
--bld::tool::cppflags  %CBASE_INC -I${PWD}/extern/src_netcdf -I${PWD}/extern/boost/include -I${PWD}/extern/rapidxml/include -I${PWD}/extern/blitz/include 
--bld::tool::fppflags  %BASE_INC -I${PWD}/extern/boost/include -I${PWD}/extern/rapidxml/include 
-+bld::tool::cppflags  %CBASE_INC -I${PWD}/extern/rapidxml/include
-+bld::tool::fppflags  %BASE_INC -I${PWD}/extern/rapidxml/include
- bld::tool::ld        %LINKER
- bld::tool::ldflags   %LD_FLAGS 
--bld::tool::cflags    %CFLAGS %CBASE_INC -I${PWD}/extern/src_netcdf -I${PWD}/extern/boost/include -I${PWD}/extern/rapidxml/include -I${PWD}/extern/blitz/include 
-+bld::tool::cflags    %CFLAGS %CBASE_INC -I${PWD}/extern/rapidxml/include
- bld::tool::fflags    %FFLAGS %FBASE_INC 
- bld::tool::cppkeys   %CPP_KEY
- bld::tool::fppkeys   %CPP_KEY
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/xios/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/xios/package.py
index 55769026cf18d90b0c5a9564463e065e58eccd17..54eca9fead0d22baafe95f739cc6386be94eeff0 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/xios/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/xios/package.py
@@ -13,9 +13,13 @@ class Xios(Package):
 
     homepage = "https://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver/wiki"
 
+    version('develop', svn='http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver/svn/XIOS/trunk')
+    version('2.5', revision=1860,
+            svn='http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver/svn/XIOS/branchs/xios-2.5')
+    version('2.0', revision=1627,
+            svn='http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver/svn/XIOS/branchs/xios-2.0')
     version('1.0', revision=910,
             svn='http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver/svn/XIOS/branchs/xios-1.0')
-    version('develop', svn='http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver/svn/XIOS/trunk')
 
     variant('mode', values=('debug', 'dev', 'prod'), default='dev',
             description='Build for debugging, development or production')
@@ -24,7 +28,6 @@ class Xios(Package):
     # Use spack versions of blitz and netcdf-c for compatibility
     # with recent compilers and optimised platform libraries:
     patch('bld_extern_1.0.patch', when='@:1.0')
-    patch('bld_extern_1.x.patch', when='@1.1:')
 
     # Workaround bug #17782 in llvm, where reading a double
     # followed by a character is broken (e.g. duration '1d'):