diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index c15f9724..327cea0e 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "BlockSparseArrays"
 uuid = "2c9a651f-6452-4ace-a6ac-809f4280fbb4"
 authors = ["ITensor developers <support@itensor.org> and contributors"]
-version = "0.6.8"
+version = "0.6.9"
 
 [deps]
 Adapt = "79e6a3ab-5dfb-504d-930d-738a2a938a0e"
diff --git a/src/factorizations/svd.jl b/src/factorizations/svd.jl
index 187795ea..c73b8e24 100644
--- a/src/factorizations/svd.jl
+++ b/src/factorizations/svd.jl
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ struct BlockPermutedDiagonalAlgorithm{A<:MatrixAlgebraKit.AbstractAlgorithm} <:
   alg::A
 end
 
-function MatrixAlgebraKit.default_svd_algorithm(A; kwargs...)
+function MatrixAlgebraKit.default_svd_algorithm(A::AbstractBlockSparseMatrix; kwargs...)
   blocktype(A) <: StridedMatrix{<:LinearAlgebra.BLAS.BlasFloat} ||
     error("unsupported type: $(blocktype(A))")
   # TODO: this is a hardcoded for now to get around this function not being defined in the