diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7878c0d..e081e68 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Fugue for Kaggle users
 
 ## Release History
 
+### 0.2.8
+
+* Update tune init
+
 ### 0.2.7
 
 * Update fugue and tune versions
diff --git a/fuggle/__init__.py b/fuggle/__init__.py
index 5f02832..97fe14d 100644
--- a/fuggle/__init__.py
+++ b/fuggle/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 def setup(default_engine: str = "") -> Any:
     TUNE_OBJECT_FACTORY.set_temp_path("/tmp")
-    TUNE_OBJECT_FACTORY.set_noniterative_objective_runner_converter(_to_runner)
+    TUNE_OBJECT_FACTORY.set_noniterative_local_optimizer_converter(_to_runner)
     TUNE_OBJECT_FACTORY.set_monitor_converter(_to_monitor)
 
     # we no longer enable SQL highlighting, kaggle has changed
@@ -35,12 +35,16 @@ def setup(default_engine: str = "") -> Any:
 def _to_runner(obj: Any) -> Optional[NonIterativeObjectiveLocalOptimizer]:
     if obj is None:
         return HyperoptLocalOptimizer(20, 0)
+    if isinstance(obj, NonIterativeObjectiveLocalOptimizer):
+        return obj
     raise NotImplementedError(obj)
 
 
 def _to_monitor(obj: Any) -> Optional[Monitor]:
     if obj is None:
         return None
+    if isinstance(obj, Monitor):
+        return obj
     if isinstance(obj, str):
         if obj == "hist":
             return NotebookSimpleHist()
diff --git a/fuggle_version/__init__.py b/fuggle_version/__init__.py
index 6cd38b7..c49a95c 100644
--- a/fuggle_version/__init__.py
+++ b/fuggle_version/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.2.7"
+__version__ = "0.2.8"