diff --git a/CMake/variants/variants.cbm206 b/CMake/variants/variants.cbm206
index c287258915a0fd9c4c9a4abb3ebd33db84f2b9ea..75b51fb5fec037c6b10f57bd67b226075ea31122 100644
--- a/CMake/variants/variants.cbm206
+++ b/CMake/variants/variants.cbm206
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ option(USE_MPI       "Use MPI"       ON)
 
 set(CASACORE_ROOT_DIR /opt/casacore/3.0.0)
 set(DAL_ROOT_DIR      /opt/DAL/3.3.1)
-set(BLITZ_ROOT_DIR    /opt/blitz/0.9)
+set(BLITZ_ROOT_DIR    /opt/blitz/1.0.1)
 
 # MPI_ROOT_DIR does not need to be specified, because it can just be found thanks to the usage of mpi-selector