diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 37ac6353..65f9cbd8 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -64,4 +64,4 @@ number: 10
 page: "E1743 - E1760"
 doi: "10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0331.1"
 url: "https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/101/10/bamsD190331.xml"
-version: 0.7.3
+version: 0.8.0
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d416647e..d7f5dd09 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.21)
 
 # must be on the same line so that pyproject.toml can correctly identify the version
-project(musica-distribution VERSION 0.7.3)
+project(musica-distribution VERSION 0.8.0)
 
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH};${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)
 set(CMAKE_USER_MAKE_RULES_OVERRIDE ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}/SetDefaults.cmake)
diff --git a/cmake/dependencies.cmake b/cmake/dependencies.cmake
index 11849256..3f5eb9f9 100644
--- a/cmake/dependencies.cmake
+++ b/cmake/dependencies.cmake
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ endif()
 if (MUSICA_ENABLE_MICM AND MUSICA_BUILD_C_CXX_INTERFACE)
 
   set_git_default(MICM_GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/NCAR/micm.git)
-  set_git_default(MICM_GIT_TAG 6b1c58a9be14095e3f3c6df403c91c4e800f23de)
+  set_git_default(MICM_GIT_TAG v3.6.0)
 
   FetchContent_Declare(micm
       GIT_REPOSITORY ${MICM_GIT_REPOSITORY}
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ if (MUSICA_ENABLE_TUVX AND MUSICA_BUILD_C_CXX_INTERFACE)
   set(TUVX_INSTALL_INCLUDE_DIR ${MUSICA_INSTALL_INCLUDE_DIR} CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
 
   set_git_default(TUVX_GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/NCAR/tuv-x.git)
-  set_git_default(TUVX_GIT_TAG ccda76c0553064a9b7b0eba73162ddeee6d8eaff)
+  set_git_default(TUVX_GIT_TAG v0.10.0)
 
   FetchContent_Declare(tuvx
     GIT_REPOSITORY ${TUVX_GIT_REPOSITORY}
diff --git a/python/CMakeLists.txt b/python/CMakeLists.txt
index 08de4604..58e15412 100644
--- a/python/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pybind11_add_module(musica_python
   ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/version.cpp
 )
 
-target_link_libraries(musica_python PRIVATE nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json yaml-cpp)
+target_link_libraries(musica_python PRIVATE yaml-cpp)
 
 target_compile_features(musica_python PUBLIC cxx_std_20)
 
diff --git a/src/packaging/CMakeLists.txt b/src/packaging/CMakeLists.txt
index a44fcf40..60a1b083 100644
--- a/src/packaging/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/packaging/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ install(
 if(MUSICA_ENABLE_MICM)
   install(
     TARGETS
-      nlohmann_json
       micm
     EXPORT
       musica_Exports