diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c1df5d973..abccd4b88 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: mirai
 Type: Package
 Title: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R
-Version: 0.10.0.9014
+Version: 0.10.0.9015
 Description: Lightweight parallel code execution and distributed computing.
     Designed for simplicity, a 'mirai' evaluates an R expression asynchronously,
     on local or network resources, resolving automatically upon completion.
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a78ceddeb..3b7d2a3d6 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# mirai 0.10.0.9014 (development)
+# mirai 0.10.0.9015 (development)
 
 * Implements an alternative communications backend for R, adding methods for the 'parallel' base package.
   + `make_cluster()` creates a 'miraiCluster', compatible with existing functions taking a 'cluster' object.
diff --git a/R/mirai-package.R b/R/mirai-package.R
index 39e8ec61b..9e1af27e5 100644
--- a/R/mirai-package.R
+++ b/R/mirai-package.R
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ NULL
 
 .onLoad <- function(libname, pkgname) {
 
-  .. <<- `[[<-`(new.env(hash = FALSE), "default", new.env(hash = FALSE))
+  .. <<- new.env(hash = FALSE, parent = environment(daemons))
+  `[[<-`(.., "default", new.env(hash = FALSE, parent = ..))
   switch(
     Sys.info()[["sysname"]],
     Linux = {
diff --git a/R/mirai.R b/R/mirai.R
index 0d93a8d5d..eb44c8897 100644
--- a/R/mirai.R
+++ b/R/mirai.R
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ daemons <- function(n, url = NULL, dispatcher = TRUE, resilience = TRUE,
 
   envir <- ..[[.compute]]
   if (is.null(envir))
-    envir <- `[[<-`(.., .compute, new.env(hash = FALSE, parent = environment(daemons)))[[.compute]]
+    envir <- `[[<-`(.., .compute, new.env(hash = FALSE, parent = ..))[[.compute]]
 
   if (is.character(url)) {
 
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ daemons <- function(n, url = NULL, dispatcher = TRUE, resilience = TRUE,
       reap(envir[["sock"]])
       length(envir[["sockc"]]) && reap(envir[["sockc"]])
       envir <- NULL
-      `[[<-`(.., .compute, new.env(hash = FALSE))
+      `[[<-`(.., .compute, new.env(hash = FALSE, parent = ..))
 
     } else if (is.null(envir[["sock"]])) {