diff --git a/packages/wf-multi-area-model/package.py b/packages/wf-multi-area-model/package.py
index f0e02c3110aeee3046d29573d6c199971ec32016..51d59bb3c96b62c4a04b55a29e1c9e44690197db 100644
--- a/packages/wf-multi-area-model/package.py
+++ b/packages/wf-multi-area-model/package.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ class WfMultiAreaModel(Package):
     git = "https://github.com/INM-6/multi-area-model"
     maintainer = ["terhorstd", "didi-hou", "rshimoura"]
 
+    version("1.2.0",  tag="v1.2.0")
     version("1.1.1",  tag="v1.1.1")
     version("1.1.0",  tag="v1.1.0")
     version("master",  branch="master")
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index 715e1c6d8c51e09d6d45dfd2bd7b217eab3277da..edd922485bdf0fe4103cefca44b78d9310d4a807 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ spack:
     - wf-biobb
     - wf-brainscales2-demos@8.0-a5
     - wf-protein-association-rates@0.1
-    - wf-multi-area-model@1.1.1
+    - wf-multi-area-model@1.2.0
     - wf-uq-akar4@0.1
     - wf-custom-python@0.1
     #- py-cerebstats