diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blast-plus/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blast-plus/package.py
index c4a8b2df33..0492911ede 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blast-plus/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/blast-plus/package.py
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ 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('2.9.0', sha256='a390cc2d7a09422759fc178db84de9def822cbe485916bbb2ec0d215dacdc257')
+    version('2.8.1', sha256='e03dd1a30e37cb8a859d3788a452c5d70ee1f9102d1ee0f93b2fbd145925118f')
     version('2.7.1', sha256='10a78d3007413a6d4c983d2acbf03ef84b622b82bd9a59c6bd9fbdde9d0298ca')
     version('2.6.0',  'c8ce8055b10c4d774d995f88c7cc6225')
     version('2.2.30', 'f8e9a5eb368173142fe6867208b73715')