diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/symengine/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/symengine/package.py
index c94cd4b61e..8a2cae617f 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/symengine/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/symengine/package.py
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ class Symengine(CMakePackage):
     homepage = "https://symengine.org"
     url      = "https://github.com/symengine/symengine/archive/v0.2.0.tar.gz"
     git      = "https://github.com/symengine/symengine.git"
-    maintainers = ['HaoZeke']
+    maintainers = ['HaoZeke', 'jppelteret']
 
     version('master', branch='master')
+    version('0.9.0', sha256='dcf174ac708ed2acea46691f6e78b9eb946d8a2ba62f75e87cf3bf4f0d651724')
     version('0.8.1', sha256='41eb6ae6901c09e53d7f61f0758f9201e81fc534bfeecd4b2bd4b4e6f6768693')
     version('0.7.0', sha256='8b865bb72b71539d9cd2488a0468c6c3ea90cc606062a7880c3ff5af6abd74b1')
     version('0.6.0', sha256='4d2caa86c03eaaa8ed004084d02f87b5c51b6229f8ba70d161227e22d6302f0a')
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ class Symengine(CMakePackage):
     # for instance depends_on('boost +filesystem')
     # See https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/22303 for reference
     depends_on(Boost.with_default_variants, when='+boostmp')
+    depends_on('cereal',   when='@0.9:')
     depends_on('gmp',      when='~boostmp')
     depends_on('llvm',     when='+llvm')
     depends_on('mpc',      when='+mpc~boostmp')
@@ -86,6 +88,12 @@ def cmake_args(self):
                 '-DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH:BOOL=on'
             ])
 
+        # The use of the Cereal serialization library is a hard dependency
+        if spec.satisfies('@0.9:'):
+            options.extend([
+                '-DWITH_SYSTEM_CEREAL:BOOL=on'
+            ])
+
         if '+boostmp' in spec:
             options.extend([
                 '-DINTEGER_CLASS:STRING=boostmp',