diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/re2/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/re2/package.py
index 5be8f32d10..61a5d595ef 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/re2/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/re2/package.py
@@ -13,5 +13,15 @@ class Re2(CMakePackage):
     homepage = "https://github.com/google/re2"
     url      = "https://github.com/google/re2/archive/2020-08-01.tar.gz"
 
+    version('2021-06-01', sha256='26155e050b10b5969e986dab35654247a3b1b295e0532880b5a9c13c0a700ceb')
     version('2020-08-01', sha256='6f4c8514249cd65b9e85d3e6f4c35595809a63ad71c5d93083e4d1dcdf9e0cd6')
     version('2020-04-01', sha256='98794bc5416326817498384a9c43cbb5a406bab8da9f84f83c39ecad43ed5cea')
+
+    variant('shared', default=False,
+            description='Build shared instead of static libraries')
+
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        args = [
+            self.define_from_variant('BUILD_SHARED_LIBS', 'shared')
+        ]
+        return args