diff --git a/cmake/modules/ExternalDependenciesVersions.cmake b/cmake/modules/ExternalDependenciesVersions.cmake
index 49f66fe0a..dd7347c25 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/ExternalDependenciesVersions.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/ExternalDependenciesVersions.cmake
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # for each dependency track both current and previous id (the variable for the latter must contain PREVIOUS)
 # to be able to auto-update them
 
-set(TTG_TRACKED_VG_CMAKE_KIT_TAG d1b34157c349cf0a7c2f149b7704a682d53f6486)  # provides FindOrFetchLinalgPP and "real" FindOrFetchBoost
+set(TTG_TRACKED_VG_CMAKE_KIT_TAG 878654d0cb1904049fbd2c37b37d5385ae897658)  # provides FindOrFetchLinalgPP and "real" FindOrFetchBoost
 set(TTG_TRACKED_CATCH2_VERSION 3.5.0)
 set(TTG_TRACKED_MADNESS_TAG 93a9a5cec2a8fa87fba3afe8056607e6062a9058)
 set(TTG_TRACKED_PARSEC_TAG 58f8f3089ecad2e8ee50e80a9586e05ce8873b1c)
diff --git a/ttg/CMakeLists.txt b/ttg/CMakeLists.txt
index 644b4dfb4..f2ab0fde8 100644
--- a/ttg/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/ttg/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -247,8 +247,10 @@ if (TARGET PaRSEC::parsec)
   # parsec depends on TTG's serialization layer since it does not provide its own
   if (TTG_PARSEC_USE_BOOST_SERIALIZATION AND TARGET ttg-serialization-boost)
     list(APPEND ttg-parsec-deps ttg-serialization-boost)
+  elseif(TARGET ttg-serialization-madness)
+    list(APPEND ttg-parsec-deps ttg-serialization-madness)
   else()
-    list(APPEND ttg-parsec-deps ttg-serialization)
+    message(WARNING "missing full-featured serialization support for ttg-parsec: either TTG_PARSEC_USE_BOOST_SERIALIZATION=OFF or Boost not found, and MADNESS not found")
   endif()
   add_ttg_library(ttg-parsec "${ttg-parsec-headers}"
                   PUBLIC_HEADER "${ttg-parsec-headers}"