diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 30d0040..b3e11bf 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# ubms 1.2.9 (development)
+
+* Updated compatibility with upcoming changes to `loo_compare()` output
+  structure in the `loo` package (> 2.9.0), which now returns a data frame
+  instead of a matrix and includes additional diagnostic columns.
+
 # ubms 1.2.8
 
 * Add probs argument to summary method
diff --git a/R/fitlist.R b/R/fitlist.R
index d800f56..0a418e4 100644
--- a/R/fitlist.R
+++ b/R/fitlist.R
@@ -53,8 +53,15 @@ setMethod("modSel", "ubmsFitList", function(object, ...){
   loos <- lapply(object@models, function(x) x@loo)
   elpd <- sapply(loos, function(x) x$estimates[1])
   p_loo <- sapply(loos, function(x) x$estimates[2])
-  compare <- loo::loo_compare(loos)[names(elpd),]
-  out <- data.frame(elpd=elpd, nparam=p_loo, elpd_diff=compare[,1],
-                    se_diff=compare[,2])
+  compare <- loo::loo_compare(loos)
+  if ("model" %in% colnames(compare)) {
+    compare <- compare[match(names(elpd), compare$model),]
+    out <- data.frame(elpd=elpd, nparam=p_loo, elpd_diff=compare[,2],
+                      se_diff=compare[,3])
+  } else {
+    compare <- loo::loo_compare(loos)[names(elpd),]
+    out <- data.frame(elpd=elpd, nparam=p_loo, elpd_diff=compare[,1],
+                      se_diff=compare[,2])
+  }
   out[order(out$elpd_diff, decreasing=TRUE),]
 })