diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blast-plus/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blast-plus/package.py
index 8e973f6124..f4c7c696cc 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blast-plus/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blast-plus/package.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class BlastPlus(AutotoolsPackage):
     homepage = "http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/"
     url      = "https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/2.6.0/ncbi-blast-2.6.0+-src.tar.gz"
 
+    version('2.7.1', sha256='10a78d3007413a6d4c983d2acbf03ef84b622b82bd9a59c6bd9fbdde9d0298ca')
     version('2.6.0',  'c8ce8055b10c4d774d995f88c7cc6225')
     version('2.2.30', 'f8e9a5eb368173142fe6867208b73715')
 
@@ -107,6 +108,8 @@ def patch(self):
     depends_on('python', when='+python')
     depends_on('perl', when='+perl')
 
+    depends_on('lmdb', when='@2.7.1:')
+
     configure_directory = 'c++'
 
     def configure_args(self):