diff --git a/Package.swift b/Package.swift
index 0956684..c4b24bc 100644
--- a/Package.swift
+++ b/Package.swift
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ let package = Package(
     ),
   ],
   dependencies: [
-    .package(url: "https://github.com/PADL/IORingSwift", branch: "main"),
+    .package(url: "https://github.com/PADL/IORingSwift", from: "1.0.0"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-async-algorithms", from: "1.0.0"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-system", from: "1.2.1"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser", from: "1.2.0"),
diff --git a/Sources/NetLink/NFNetLink.swift b/Sources/NetLink/NFNetLink.swift
index 55b9323..c210406 100644
--- a/Sources/NetLink/NFNetLink.swift
+++ b/Sources/NetLink/NFNetLink.swift
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ public final class NFNLLog: Sendable {
 
   public init(family: sa_family_t = sa_family_t(AF_BRIDGE), group: UInt16) throws {
     _socket = try NLSocket(protocol: NETLINK_NETFILTER)
-    _log = NLObject(consumingObj: nfnl_log_alloc())
+    guard let logObj = nfnl_log_alloc() else { throw NLError.noMemory }
+    _log = NLObject(consumingObj: logObj)
     try throwingNLError {
       nfnl_log_pf_bind(_socket._sk, UInt8(family))
     }
diff --git a/Sources/NetLink/NetLink.swift b/Sources/NetLink/NetLink.swift
index 0b902ab..6ddbaca 100644
--- a/Sources/NetLink/NetLink.swift
+++ b/Sources/NetLink/NetLink.swift
@@ -73,18 +73,24 @@ Sendable, Equatable, Hashable, CustomStringConvertible {
     try withUnsafeMutablePointer(to: &obj) { objRef in
       _ = try throwingNLError {
         nl_msg_parse(msg, { obj, objRef in
-          nl_object_get(obj)
-          objRef!
+          let ptr = objRef!
             .withMemoryRebound(
-              to: OpaquePointer.self,
+              to: OpaquePointer?.self,
               capacity: 1
-            ) { objRef in
-              objRef.pointee = obj!
-            }
+            ) { $0 }
+          if let existing = ptr.pointee {
+            nl_object_put(existing)
+          }
+          nl_object_get(obj)
+          ptr.pointee = obj
         }, objRef)
       }
     }
 
+    guard obj != nil else {
+      throw NLError.invalidArgument
+    }
+
     self.init(obj: obj, constructFromObject: constructFromObject)
     nl_object_put(obj)
   }
@@ -222,7 +228,7 @@ private func NLSocket_ErrCB(
   let hdr = err.pointee.msg
   debugPrint("NLSocket_ErrCB: error \(err.pointee)")
   nlSocket.yield(sequence: hdr.nlmsg_seq, with: Result.failure(Errno(rawValue: -err.pointee.error)))
-  return err.pointee.error
+  return CInt(NL_SKIP.rawValue)
 }
 
 public final class NLSocket: @unchecked
@@ -230,7 +236,7 @@ Sendable {
   private typealias Continuation = CheckedContinuation<NLObjectConstructible, Error>
   private typealias Stream = AsyncThrowingStream<NLObjectConstructible, Error>
   private typealias Ack = CheckedContinuation<(), Error>
-  public typealias Channel = AsyncThrowingChannel<NLObjectConstructible, Error>
+  public typealias NotificationStream = AsyncThrowingStream<NLObjectConstructible, Error>
 
   private enum _Request {
     case continuation(Continuation)
@@ -248,12 +254,18 @@ Sendable {
   }
 
   let _sk: OpaquePointer!
+  let _queue = DispatchQueue(label: "NLSocket")
   private let _readSource: any DispatchSourceRead
   private let _requests = Mutex<[UInt32: _Request]>([:])
 
-  public let notifications = Channel()
+  private let _notificationsContinuation: NotificationStream.Continuation
+  public let notifications: NotificationStream
 
   public init(protocol: Int32) throws {
+    var continuation: NotificationStream.Continuation!
+    notifications = NotificationStream(bufferingPolicy: .unbounded) { continuation = $0 }
+    _notificationsContinuation = continuation
+
     guard let sk = nl_socket_alloc() else { throw NLError.noMemory }
     nl_socket_disable_seq_check(sk)
     _sk = sk
@@ -266,7 +278,7 @@ Sendable {
     let fd = nl_socket_get_fd(sk)
     precondition(fd >= 0)
 
-    _readSource = DispatchSource.makeReadSource(fileDescriptor: fd, queue: .main)
+    _readSource = DispatchSource.makeReadSource(fileDescriptor: fd, queue: _queue)
     _readSource.setEventHandler(handler: onReadReady)
 
     nl_socket_modify_cb(
@@ -302,6 +314,7 @@ Sendable {
 
   deinit {
     _readSource.cancel()
+    _notificationsContinuation.finish()
     nl_socket_free(_sk)
   }
 
@@ -344,13 +357,15 @@ Sendable {
   }
 
   public func useNextSequenceNumber() -> UInt32 {
-    var nextSequenceNumber: UInt32
+    _queue.sync {
+      var nextSequenceNumber: UInt32
 
-    repeat {
-      nextSequenceNumber = nl_socket_use_seq(_sk)
-    } while nextSequenceNumber == 0
+      repeat {
+        nextSequenceNumber = nl_socket_use_seq(_sk)
+      } while nextSequenceNumber == 0
 
-    return nextSequenceNumber
+      return nextSequenceNumber
+    }
   }
 
   private func _lookup(sequence: UInt32, forceRemove: Bool) -> _Request? {
@@ -405,13 +420,7 @@ Sendable {
         }
       }
     } else {
-      Task {
-        do {
-          try await notifications.send(result.get())
-        } catch {
-          notifications.fail(error)
-        }
-      }
+      _notificationsContinuation.yield(with: result)
     }
   }
 
@@ -466,7 +475,12 @@ Sendable {
       }
       stream = _stream
     }
-    try message.send(on: self)
+    do {
+      try message.send(on: self)
+    } catch {
+      _requests.withLock { $0.removeValue(forKey: sequence) }
+      throw error
+    }
     return stream
   }
 }
@@ -764,8 +778,10 @@ struct NLMessage: ~Copyable {
   }
 
   func append(opaque value: UnsafePointer<some Any>) throws {
-    _ = try withUnsafeBytes(of: value.pointee) { value in
-      try append(Array(value))
+    try withUnsafeBytes(of: value.pointee) { bytes in
+      try throwingNLError {
+        nlmsg_append(_msg, UnsafeMutableRawPointer(mutating: bytes.baseAddress), bytes.count, CInt(NLMSG_ALIGNTO))
+      }
     }
   }
 
@@ -858,7 +874,9 @@ struct NLMessage: ~Copyable {
   }
 
   func send(on socket: NLSocket) throws {
-    try throwingNLError { nl_send_auto(socket._sk, _msg) }
+    try socket._queue.sync {
+      try throwingNLError { nl_send_auto(socket._sk, _msg) }
+    }
   }
 
   deinit {