diff --git a/turso/install b/turso/install
index 85f1f1f38f..8763b58992 100755
--- a/turso/install
+++ b/turso/install
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ if ! command -v tursodb >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     sudo apt-get update -y
     sudo apt-get install -y curl
     curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf \
-        https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.6.0-pre.27/turso_cli-installer.sh | sh
+        https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.8.1/turso_cli-installer.sh | sh
 fi
 
 export HOME=${HOME:=~}
diff --git a/turso/load b/turso/load
index 91b24b209f..009c9d78c9 100755
--- a/turso/load
+++ b/turso/load
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-set -e
+set -eo pipefail
 
 export HOME=${HOME:=~}
 # shellcheck disable=SC1091
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ export RUST_BACKTRACE=1
 rm -f mydb
 
 tursodb mydb < create.sql
-tursodb mydb <<'EOF' 2>&1 | grep -v '^Inserting batch of'
+# Newer tursodb prints nothing during the import, and grep exits 1 when no
+# lines pass the filter; pipefail still catches a tursodb failure.
+tursodb mydb <<'EOF' 2>&1 | { grep -v '^Inserting batch of' || true; }
 PRAGMA synchronous = OFF;
 BEGIN;
 .import --csv hits.csv hits
diff --git a/turso/template.json b/turso/template.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f1c0a43b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/turso/template.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "system": "Turso",
+  "proprietary": "no",
+  "hardware": "cpu",
+  "tuned": "no",
+  "tags": [
+    "Rust",
+    "embedded",
+    "row-oriented",
+    "SQLite compatible"
+  ]
+}