diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mpibenchmark/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mpibenchmark/package.py
index 7c6713f0eb4..5e6a7d5bfde 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mpibenchmark/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mpibenchmark/package.py
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ class Mpibenchmark(AutotoolsPackage):
     """MadMPI benchmark.
 
     MadMPI benchmark is benchmark designed to assess the performance
-    of MPI libraries using various metrics. It may be used to
+    of MPI libraries using various metrics: point-to-point communications,
+    collectives, communication/computation overlap, scalability with the
+    number of requests, RMA, multi-threaded communications. It may be used to
     benchmark any MPI library.
     """
 
@@ -22,6 +24,7 @@ class Mpibenchmark(AutotoolsPackage):
     license("GPL-2.0-or-later", checked_by="a-denis")
 
     version("master", branch="master")
+    version("0.6", sha256="4e956394856476b5b31fb170b488fc3c2fbbcd98fe140d71d0bca9bc171617be")
     version("0.5", sha256="bba9e5aa8b58c041f89e4518a0a7f80a63ebfaf0f90bb8bdd0976d1bf22bed83")
     version("0.4", sha256="f3d562683bad29e00efae11a449596feacdef5f29cd4f1d60d01368adacece37")
     version("0.3", sha256="af82d48a0a00971c9294725ea6944b8683c12ab3b8203357379fa0969e61325f")
@@ -54,9 +57,9 @@ def configure_args(self):
             "--with-hwloc",  # always use hwloc in spack
             "--without-cuda",
             "--without-hip",
-            self.enable_or_disable("optimize"),
-            self.enable_or_disable("debug"),
-            self.enable_or_disable("asan"),
+            *self.enable_or_disable("optimize"),
+            *self.enable_or_disable("debug"),
+            *self.enable_or_disable("asan"),
         ]
         return config_args