diff --git a/recipes/scnic/meta.yaml b/recipes/scnic/meta.yaml
index efd95b37cefe3..cc3e3333c0e1a 100644
--- a/recipes/scnic/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/scnic/meta.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{% set version = "0.6.0" %}
+{% set version = "0.6.1" %}
 
 package:
   name: scnic
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ package:
 
 source:
   url: https://github.com/shafferm/SCNIC/archive/{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: 476868bb0e1703ee4bd29e712e94178f0027b4413fd9428dcf0922baffd3d677
+  sha256: 9228b361361f1b8e407a1502676558636700e620a5cc4ac57845636da234da05
 
 build:
   number: 0
@@ -27,10 +27,7 @@ requirements:
     - biom-format
     - networkx >2
     - scikit-bio
-    - fastspar 0.0.6
-    # fastspar does not pin armadillo correctly, doing
-    # that here until fastspar 0.0.7 fixes it
-    - armadillo 8.*
+    - fastspar
     - tqdm
     - matplotlib
     - seaborn