diff --git a/packages/wf-brainscales2-demos/package.py b/packages/wf-brainscales2-demos/package.py
index d1eec409c2f37ccd2a3c956082a6881ef9dbc4a8..42d0455785d4b5413df95aa4cd41990d3c622599 100644
--- a/packages/wf-brainscales2-demos/package.py
+++ b/packages/wf-brainscales2-demos/package.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ class WfBrainscales2Demos(Package):
     maintainer = ["muffgaga"]
 
     # ECM: we probably should build the ipynb file in this package
+    version("8.0-a5", tag="jupyter-notebooks-8.0-a5")
     version("8.0-a4", tag="jupyter-notebooks-8.0-a4")
     version("7.0-rc1-fixup3", tag="jupyter-notebooks-7.0-rc1-fixup3")
     version("23.6", branch="jupyter-notebooks-experimental")
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index e10477af45ec11ea23c7f4f1bed3a05dca3c9e59..715e1c6d8c51e09d6d45dfd2bd7b217eab3277da 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ spack:
     - sda@7.3.3d
     # Workflows (meta-packages)
     - wf-biobb
-    - wf-brainscales2-demos@8.0-a4
+    - wf-brainscales2-demos@8.0-a5
     - wf-protein-association-rates@0.1
     - wf-multi-area-model@1.1.1
     - wf-uq-akar4@0.1