diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sperr/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sperr/package.py
index e048996bb68..7b8cc77f4ca 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sperr/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/sperr/package.py
@@ -12,14 +12,16 @@ class Sperr(CMakePackage):
 
     # Package info
     homepage = "https://github.com/NCAR/SPERR"
-    url = "https://github.com/NCAR/SPERR/archive/refs/tags/v0.7.1.tar.gz"
+    url = "https://github.com/NCAR/SPERR/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.1.tar.gz"
     git = "https://github.com/NCAR/SPERR.git"
     maintainers("shaomeng", "robertu94")
 
-    license("GPL-3.0-only")
+    license("Apache-2.0", when="@0.8.1:")
+    license("GPL-3.0-only", when="@:0.7.1")
 
     # Versions
     version("main", branch="main")
+    version("0.8.1", sha256="0d059fd15a0415f0cba9c54417507488ae95c5e3ff9729720db63dfd4ef2494b")
     version("0.7.1", sha256="1c3f46200be365427d1f57f5873f1b0b6dbcd297de4603a47a7fa3f41b273d79")
     version("0.6.2", sha256="d986997e2d79a1f27146ad02c623359976a1e72a1ab0d957e128d430cda3782d")
     version("0.5", sha256="20ad48c0e7599d3e5866e024d0c49648eb817f72ad5459f5468122cf14a97171")