diff --git a/brozzler/worker.py b/brozzler/worker.py
index 19a8d34..f7a72db 100644
--- a/brozzler/worker.py
+++ b/brozzler/worker.py
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ class BrozzlerWorker:
             self.status_info = self._service_registry.heartbeat(status_info)
             self.logger.trace(
                     "status in service registry: %s", self.status_info)
-        except rethinkdb.ReqlError as e:
+        except r.ReqlError as e:
             self.logger.error(
                     "failed to send heartbeat and update service registry "
                     "with info %s: %s", status_info, e)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3b0fa8d..2f18c9e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b11.dev254',
+        version='1.1b11.dev255',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',