diff --git a/.github/workflows/Intel.yml b/.github/workflows/Intel.yml
index 2b0feff..340e83c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/Intel.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/Intel.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
         rm GPG-PUB-KEY-INTEL-SW-PRODUCTS.PUB
         echo "deb https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oneAPI.list
         sudo apt-get update
-        sudo apt-get install intel-oneapi-dev-utilities intel-oneapi-mpi-devel intel-oneapi-openmp intel-oneapi-compiler-fortran intel-oneapi-compiler-dpcpp-cpp-and-cpp-classic
+        sudo apt-get install intel-oneapi-openmp intel-oneapi-compiler-fortran-2023.2.1 intel-oneapi-compiler-dpcpp-cpp-and-cpp-classic-2023.2.1
         echo "source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh" >> ~/.bash_profile
 
     - name: checkout
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 84f099c..fe3a3f4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 ![Status](https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/NCEPLIBS-sp/workflows/developer/badge.svg)
 
+> [!NOTE]
+> The functionality of this library has been merged into
+> [NCEPLIBS-ip](https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/NCEPLIBS-ip) as of the latest
+> version (5.0), which contains the full set of NCEPLIBS-sp functionality as of
+> the most recent release (2.5.0). NCEPLIBS-sp should be considered deprecated,
+> and all future development should use **NCEPLIBS-ip** as soon as available
+> (ip v5.0 is slated for inclusion in spack-stack 1.7.0).
+
 # NCEPLIBS-sp
 
 The spectral transform library (splib) contains FORTRAN subprograms to