diff --git a/conf/common/build.yml b/conf/common/build.yml
index 0c5b556e04b839c83faa35503c5cf418cb4de830..903a187824bdb8607f8f08ee0223efa39af92ae0 100644
--- a/conf/common/build.yml
+++ b/conf/common/build.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ spack:
 
 icon:
   # The command that will be used to build icon-nwp with spack
-  build_cmd: "icon-nwp@%ICON.VERSION%% %SPACK.COMPILER%"
+  build_cmd: "icon-nwp@%^ICON.VERSION%% %^SPACK.COMPILER%"
   # In LRZ we used the following command to point to a specific versio of openmpi:
   # build_cmd: "icon-nwp@%ICON.VERSION%% %SPACK.COMPILER% ^openmpi/amct7nx"
   # In LMU we used the following command to build the appropriate a version of openmpi works with slurm:
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ icon:
   version: master # The latest release at the moment of creating this file was 2.6.5-nwp0
 
 dwdicontools:
-  build_cmd: "dwd-icon-tools% %SPACK.COMPILER%"
+  build_cmd: "dwd-icon-tools% %^SPACK.COMPILER%"
   load_cmd: build_cmd
 
 
diff --git a/examples/example_utils.sh b/examples/example_utils.sh
index 7aed35c3d410bec17adc70dda53942f87b8928b7..b7c0be137fabc721ffc5aec0e15bb7d11bd4d57f 100644
--- a/examples/example_utils.sh
+++ b/examples/example_utils.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ function run_autoicon_example() {
 
 function setup_environment() {
   # Set Autosubmit version and define some directories
-  AUTOSUBMIT_VERSION="4.0.79"
+  AUTOSUBMIT_VERSION="4.0.88"
   # Define the path of the directory where this script is located
   SCRIPTDIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd)"
   # Define the root path of the project