diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ab8236cb8c..c57f3a2ee1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ dependencies = [
   'click>=8.0.0',
   'cmake>=3.22',
   'cytoolz>=1.0.1',
-  'dace>=2.0.0a7',
+  'dace>=2.0.0a8',
   'deepdiff>=8.1.0',
   'devtools>=0.6',
   'factory-boy>=3.3.3',
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 9c2bcfc757..053e88fe5d 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -991,10 +991,11 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "dace"
-version = "2.0.0a7"
+version = "2.0.0a8"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "astunparse" },
+    { name = "click" },
     { name = "cmake" },
     { name = "dill" },
     { name = "fparser" },
@@ -1011,7 +1012,7 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "sympy" },
     { name = "typing-extensions" },
 ]
-sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/df/e0/2c45877476eb300fc8211fb2a46b3e3203468cd2bd3e0ecb4a7f5a7a4694/dace-2.0.0a7.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ab15a73ce4c2cacaf9244832f84ea56328e181b21956a6d0c529782201609095", size = 6827344, upload-time = "2026-08-28T14:11:38.633Z" }
+sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3b/90/731082991ecf32f9efe5cc1a35d7799714f2de1a6bfca3920b337306c040/dace-2.0.0a8.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0cfeee1f33109561573c2e48a5d3047c5f810265f18c84d2b8870422597899f8", size = 6832697, upload-time = "2026-09-01T15:54:35.661Z" }
 
 [[package]]
 name = "debugpy"
@@ -1538,7 +1539,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "cupy-cuda13x", marker = "extra == 'cuda13'", specifier = ">=14.0" },
     { name = "cupy-rocm-7-0", marker = "extra == 'rocm7'", specifier = ">=14.0" },
     { name = "cytoolz", specifier = ">=1.0.1" },
-    { name = "dace", specifier = ">=2.0.0a7" },
+    { name = "dace", specifier = ">=2.0.0a8" },
     { name = "deepdiff", specifier = ">=8.1.0" },
     { name = "devtools", specifier = ">=0.6" },
     { name = "factory-boy", specifier = ">=3.3.3" },