diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 80dc9c68e92..80223788a1f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+daos (2.7.100-8) unstable; urgency=medium
+  [ Cedric Koch-Hofer]
+  * Update BR: argobots to 1.2
+
+ -- Cedric Koch-Hofer <cedric.koch-hofer@intel.com>  Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:06:00 -0700
+
 daos (2.7.100-7) unstable; urgency=medium
   [ Tomasz Gromadzki ]
   * Add support of the PMDK package 2.1.0 with NDCTL enabled.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 328bda36426..a8237643fae 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
                pkg-config,
                python3-dev,
                python3-distro,
-               libabt-dev,
+               libabt-dev (>= 1.2),
                libucx-dev,
                libpmemobj-dev (>= 2.1.0),
                libfuse3-dev,
diff --git a/utils/build.config b/utils/build.config
index 52749b3f1ce..5b039750a9b 100644
--- a/utils/build.config
+++ b/utils/build.config
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 component=daos
 
 [commit_versions]
-argobots=v1.1
+argobots=v1.2
 fuse=fuse-3.16.2
 pmdk=2.1.0
 isal=v2.30.0
@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ ofi=https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric/commit/d827c6484cc5bf67dfbe395890e258860c
 fuse=https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/commit/c9905341ea34ff9acbc11b3c53ba8bcea35eeed8.diff
 mercury=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daos-stack/mercury/f3dc286fb40ec1a3a38a2e17c45497bc2aa6290d/na_ucx.patch
 pmdk=https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/commit/2abe15ac0b4eed894b6768cd82a3b0a7c4336284.diff
+argobots=https://github.com/pmodels/argobots/pull/397/commits/411e5b344642ebc82190fd8b125db512e5b449d1.diff,https://github.com/pmodels/argobots/commit/bb0c908abfac4bfe37852eee621930634183c6aa.diff
diff --git a/utils/rpms/daos.spec b/utils/rpms/daos.spec
index ce261853ffc..76aee4cc7ca 100644
--- a/utils/rpms/daos.spec
+++ b/utils/rpms/daos.spec
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 %global mercury_version   2.4
 %global libfabric_version 1.15.1-1
+%global argobots_version 1.2
 %global __python %{__python3}
 
 %if (0%{?rhel} >= 8)
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@
 
 Name:          daos
 Version:       2.7.100
-Release:       7%{?relval}%{?dist}
+Release:       8%{?relval}%{?dist}
 Summary:       DAOS Storage Engine
 
 License:       BSD-2-Clause-Patent
@@ -41,11 +42,11 @@ BuildRequires: hwloc-devel
 BuildRequires: bullseye
 %endif
 %if (0%{?rhel} >= 8)
-BuildRequires: argobots-devel >= 1.1
+BuildRequires: argobots-devel >= %{argobots_version}
 BuildRequires: json-c-devel
 BuildRequires: boost-python3-devel
 %else
-BuildRequires: libabt-devel >= 1.0rc1
+BuildRequires: libabt-devel >= %{argobots_version}
 BuildRequires: libjson-c-devel
 BuildRequires: boost-devel
 %endif
@@ -599,6 +600,9 @@ getent passwd daos_agent >/dev/null || useradd -s /sbin/nologin -r -g daos_agent
 # No files in a shim package
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Oct 07 2024 Cedric Koch-Hofer <cedric.koch-hofer@intel.com> 2.7.100-8
+- Update BR: argobots to 1.2
+
 * Tue Oct 01 2024 Tomasz Gromadzki <tomasz.gromadzki@intel.com> 2.7.100-7
 - Add support of the PMDK package 2.1.0 with NDCTL enabled.
   * Increase the default ULT stack size to 20KiB if the engine uses