diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d62c270..0d322ba 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rusqlite"
-version = "0.0.8"
+version = "0.0.9"
 authors = ["John Gallagher <jgallagher@bignerdranch.com>"]
 description = "Ergonomic wrapper for SQLite"
 homepage = "https://github.com/jgallagher/rusqlite"
diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 395d447..3ee1ed3 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Version 0.0.9 (2015-02-13)
+
+* Updates to track latest rustc changes.
+* Implement standard `Error` trait for `SqliteError`.
+
 # Version 0.0.8 (2015-02-04)
 
 * Updates to track latest rustc changes.
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index cb1a4f6..2efedb7 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ extern crate libc;
 use std::mem;
 use std::ptr;
 use std::fmt;
+use std::error;
 use std::rc::{Rc};
 use std::cell::{RefCell, Cell};
 use std::ffi::{CString};
@@ -100,8 +101,14 @@ pub struct SqliteError {
 }
 
 impl fmt::Display for SqliteError {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
-        write!(f, "SqliteError( code: {}, message: {} )", self.code, self.message)
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{} (SQLite error {})", self.message, self.code)
+    }
+}
+
+impl error::Error for SqliteError {
+    fn description(&self) -> &str {
+        self.message.as_slice()
     }
 }
 
@@ -311,7 +318,8 @@ impl SqliteConnection {
     /// This is functionally equivalent to the `Drop` implementation for `SqliteConnection` except
     /// that it returns any error encountered to the caller.
     pub fn close(self) -> SqliteResult<()> {
-        self.db.borrow_mut().close()
+        let mut db = self.db.borrow_mut();
+        db.close()
     }
 
     fn decode_result(&self, code: c_int) -> SqliteResult<()> {