diff --git a/LibTrixi.jl/Project.toml b/LibTrixi.jl/Project.toml
index af16b336..03ee9729 100644
--- a/LibTrixi.jl/Project.toml
+++ b/LibTrixi.jl/Project.toml
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ Trixi = "a7f1ee26-1774-49b1-8366-f1abc58fbfcb"
 MPI = "0.20.13"
 Pkg = "1.8"
 SciMLBase = "2.33.0, 3"
-Trixi = "0.16.10"
+Trixi = "0.16.10, 0.17"
 julia = "1.8"
diff --git a/LibTrixi.jl/test/Project.toml b/LibTrixi.jl/test/Project.toml
index b6fae1cb..9a8e9eeb 100644
--- a/LibTrixi.jl/test/Project.toml
+++ b/LibTrixi.jl/test/Project.toml
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ Trixi = "a7f1ee26-1774-49b1-8366-f1abc58fbfcb"
 
 [compat]
 OrdinaryDiffEqLowStorageRK = "1.2, 2, 3"
-Trixi = "0.16.10"
+Trixi = "0.16.10, 0.17"
diff --git a/utils/libtrixi-init-julia b/utils/libtrixi-init-julia
index a7e0be6f..c783a573 100755
--- a/utils/libtrixi-init-julia
+++ b/utils/libtrixi-init-julia
@@ -273,6 +273,17 @@ using Pkg
 Pkg.add([\"Preferences\", \"UUIDs\", \"MPIPreferences\", \"T8code\", \
          \"P4est\", \"HDF5\", \"MPI\"])"
 [ $? -eq 0 ] || die "could not install dependencies"
+
+# Workaround for CI runners using OpenMPI version 4
+# See https://github.com/trixi-framework/libtrixi/issues/237#issuecomment-2792609780
+if [ "$CI" = "true" ]; then
+  JULIA_DEPOT_PATH="$julia_depot" JULIA_PKG_PRECOMPILE_AUTO=0 \
+      $julia_exec --project=. \
+      -e "
+  using Pkg
+  Pkg.add(name=\"OpenMPI_jll\", version=\"4\")"
+  [ $? -eq 0 ] || die "could not install dependencies"
+fi
 echo
 
 # Set system MPI library