diff --git a/packages/py-bluepyopt/package.py b/packages/py-bluepyopt/package.py
index 67cfa6b65ee7e97603e8397650b83f2b74f89c70..aa4e5254800dfa5a6d358856fe5637b77dcefbef 100644
--- a/packages/py-bluepyopt/package.py
+++ b/packages/py-bluepyopt/package.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ class PyBluepyopt(PythonPackage):
     license("LGPL-3.0-only")
 
     # NOTE : while adding new release check pmi_rank.patch compatibility
+    version("1.14.18", sha256="23d6239294d944c8f9d4ea298091bcf243d236735844e1bcba60535a0f520ca8")
     version("1.14.11", sha256="fe2830c36699a93d2ef9ddef316da42f9c57ca6654c92356eab973ee2298ebf7")
     version("1.14.4", sha256="7567fd736053250ca06030f67ad93c607b100c2b98df8dc588c26b64cb3e171c")
 
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index b99a827038f34fffb388af454bfc187d263cb07f..809334f9675222c13f945ae0e15cfe24d1aa6a59 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ spack:
     - jaxsnn@10.0-a1
     - py-bluepyefe@2.3.6
     - py-bluepymm@0.8.7
-    - py-bluepyopt@1.14.11
+    - py-bluepyopt@1.14.18
     - py-bsb-core@5.0.2
     - py-bsb-hdf5@5.0.2
     - py-bsb-yaml@4.2.2