diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/neko/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/neko/package.py
index 3eab17ecabc..58f959f9460 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/neko/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/neko/package.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ class Neko(AutotoolsPackage, CudaPackage, ROCmPackage):
     url = "https://github.com/ExtremeFLOW/neko/releases/download/v0.3.2/neko-0.3.2.tar.gz"
     maintainers("njansson")
 
+    version("0.8.0", sha256="09d0b253c8abda9f384bf8f03b17b50d774cb0a1f7b72744a8e863acac516a51")
     version("0.7.2", sha256="5dd17fbae83d0b26dc46fafce4e5444be679cdce9493cef4ff7d504e2f854254")
     version("0.7.1", sha256="c935c3d93b0975db46448045f97aced6ac2cab31a2b8803047f8086f98dcb981")
     version("0.7.0", sha256="fe871e0a79f388073e0b3dc191d1c0d5da3a53883f5b1951d88b9423fc79a53c")
@@ -31,7 +32,8 @@ class Neko(AutotoolsPackage, CudaPackage, ROCmPackage):
     version("develop", branch="develop")
     variant("parmetis", default=False, description="Build with support for parmetis")
     variant("xsmm", default=False, description="Build with support for libxsmm")
-    variant("gslib", default=False, when="@develop", description="Build with support for gslib")
+    variant("gslib", default=False, when="@0.7.0:", description="Build with support for gslib")
+    variant("hdf5", default=False, when="@develop", description="Build with support for HDF5")
 
     # Requires cuda or rocm enabled MPI
     variant(
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@ class Neko(AutotoolsPackage, CudaPackage, ROCmPackage):
     depends_on("json-fortran", when="@develop")
     depends_on("json-fortran", when="@0.7.0:")
     depends_on("gslib", when="+gslib")
+    depends_on("hdf5+fortran+mpi", when="+hdf5")
 
     def configure_args(self):
         args = []
@@ -63,6 +66,7 @@ def configure_args(self):
         args += self.with_or_without("metis", variant="parmetis", activation_value="prefix")
         args += self.with_or_without("libxsmm", variant="xsmm")
         args += self.with_or_without("gslib", variant="gslib", activation_value="prefix")
+        args += self.with_or_without("hdf5", variant="hdf5", activation_value="prefix")
         args += self.with_or_without("cuda", activation_value="prefix")
         rocm_fn = lambda x: self.spec["hip"].prefix
         args += self.with_or_without("hip", variant="rocm", activation_value=rocm_fn)