diff --git a/cpp/cmake/thirdparty/get_jitify.cmake b/cpp/cmake/thirdparty/get_jitify.cmake
index b6f11e30d28..5db4e3e907f 100644
--- a/cpp/cmake/thirdparty/get_jitify.cmake
+++ b/cpp/cmake/thirdparty/get_jitify.cmake
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ function(find_and_configure_jitify)
   rapids_cpm_find(
     jitify 2.0.0
     GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/NVIDIA/jitify.git
-    GIT_TAG 70783a3ad7b0cad2992a26a1ebf8fbe3d6b44e25 # jitify2 branch as of 5th Aug 2025
-    GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
+    GIT_TAG 44e978b21fc8bdb6b2d7d8d179523c8350db72e5 # jitify2 branch as of 23rd Aug 2025
+    GIT_SHALLOW FALSE
     DOWNLOAD_ONLY TRUE
   )
   set(JITIFY_INCLUDE_DIR
diff --git a/python/libcudf/CMakeLists.txt b/python/libcudf/CMakeLists.txt
index 6e4c525edbd..6722db592bb 100644
--- a/python/libcudf/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/libcudf/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -54,11 +54,13 @@ if(TARGET nvcomp::nvcomp)
     # Compute the SOVERSION from the library path
     get_filename_component(nvcomp_lib_dir ${nvcomp_lib_path} DIRECTORY)
     get_filename_component(nvcomp_lib_name ${nvcomp_lib_path} NAME)
-    string(REGEX REPLACE "libnvcomp\\.so\\.([0-9]+)" "\\1" nvcomp_soversion ${nvcomp_lib_name})
+    string(REPLACE [=[libnvcomp.so.]=] "" nvcomp_soversion ${nvcomp_lib_name})
+    string(REPLACE [=[.]=] ";" nvcomp_soversion ${nvcomp_soversion})
+    list(GET nvcomp_soversion 0 nvcomp_soversion_major)
     install(
       FILES ${nvcomp_lib_path}
       DESTINATION ${SKBUILD_PLATLIB_DIR}/libcudf/lib64/
-      RENAME libnvcomp.so.${nvcomp_soversion}
+      RENAME libnvcomp.so.${nvcomp_soversion_major}
     )
   else()
     message(FATAL_ERROR "nvcomp target must be imported")