diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 227696366..e5eb6abfe 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "Pigeons"
 uuid = "0eb8d820-af6a-4919-95ae-11206f830c31"
 authors = ["Alexandre Bouchard-Côté <bouchard@stat.ubc.ca>, Nikola Surjanovic <nikola.surjanovic@stat.ubc.ca>, Paul Tiede <ptiede91@gmail.com>, Trevor Campbell, Miguel Biron-Lattes, Saifuddin Syed"]
-version = "0.2.6"
+version = "0.2.7"
 
 [deps]
 BridgeStan = "c88b6f0a-829e-4b0b-94b7-f06ab5908f5a"
diff --git a/src/utils/exec_folder.jl b/src/utils/exec_folder.jl
index 403b99bca..dcb543d05 100644
--- a/src/utils/exec_folder.jl
+++ b/src/utils/exec_folder.jl
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ called `results/latest``
 """
 function next_exec_folder()
     formatted_time = Dates.format(now(), dateformat"yyyy-mm-dd-HH-MM-SS")
-    Random.seed!(getpid() * now().instant.periods.value)
-    result = abspath("results/all/$formatted_time-$(randstring(8))")
+    rng = SplittableRandom(getpid() * now().instant.periods.value)
+    result = abspath("results/all/$formatted_time-$(randstring(rng, 8))")
     mkpath(result)
     _ensure_symlinked(result)
     return result