diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 3d7f636f9..b00eb4531 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "DynamicPPL"
 uuid = "366bfd00-2699-11ea-058f-f148b4cae6d8"
-version = "0.12.4"
+version = "0.13.0"
 
 [deps]
 AbstractMCMC = "80f14c24-f653-4e6a-9b94-39d6b0f70001"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ZygoteRules = "700de1a5-db45-46bc-99cf-38207098b444"
 
 [compat]
 AbstractMCMC = "2, 3.0"
-AbstractPPL = "0.1.2"
+AbstractPPL = "0.2"
 Bijectors = "0.5.2, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9"
 ChainRulesCore = "0.9.7, 0.10"
 Distributions = "0.23.8, 0.24, 0.25"
diff --git a/src/compiler.jl b/src/compiler.jl
index 91fe78e2b..c70bbff1e 100644
--- a/src/compiler.jl
+++ b/src/compiler.jl
@@ -98,8 +98,12 @@ end
 function unwrap_right_left_vns(
     right::MultivariateDistribution, left::AbstractMatrix, vn::VarName
 )
+    # This an expression such as `x .~ MvNormal()` which we interpret as
+    #     x[:, i] ~ MvNormal()
+    # for `i = size(left, 2)`. Hence the symbol should be `x[:, i]`,
+    # and we therefore add the `Colon()` below.
     vns = map(axes(left, 2)) do i
-        return VarName(vn, (vn.indexing..., Tuple(i)))
+        return VarName(vn, (vn.indexing..., Colon(), Tuple(i)))
     end
     return unwrap_right_left_vns(right, left, vns)
 end
diff --git a/src/context_implementations.jl b/src/context_implementations.jl
index 3d492f5b1..cd7a92535 100644
--- a/src/context_implementations.jl
+++ b/src/context_implementations.jl
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ alg_str(spl::Sampler) = string(nameof(typeof(spl.alg)))
 require_gradient(spl::Sampler) = false
 require_particles(spl::Sampler) = false
 
-_getindex(x, inds::Tuple) = _getindex(x[first(inds)...], Base.tail(inds))
+_getindex(x, inds::Tuple) = _getindex(view(x, first(inds)...), Base.tail(inds))
 _getindex(x, inds::Tuple{}) = x
 
 # assume
@@ -227,11 +227,8 @@ end
 
 # fallback without sampler
 function assume(dist::Distribution, vn::VarName, vi)
-    if !haskey(vi, vn)
-        error("variable $vn does not exist")
-    end
     r = vi[vn]
-    return r, Bijectors.logpdf_with_trans(dist, vi[vn], istrans(vi, vn))
+    return r, Bijectors.logpdf_with_trans(dist, r, istrans(vi, vn))
 end
 
 # SampleFromPrior and SampleFromUniform
@@ -430,12 +427,13 @@ function dot_assume(
     #     m .~ Normal()
     #
     # in which case `var` will have `undef` elements, even if `m` is present in `vi`.
-    r = get_and_set_val!(Random.GLOBAL_RNG, vi, vns, dist, SampleFromPrior())
+    r = vi[vns]
     lp = sum(zip(vns, eachcol(r))) do vn, ri
         return Bijectors.logpdf_with_trans(dist, ri, istrans(vi, vn))
     end
     return r, lp
 end
+
 function dot_assume(
     rng,
     spl::Union{SampleFromPrior,SampleFromUniform},
@@ -462,7 +460,7 @@ function dot_assume(
     #     m .~ Normal()
     #
     # in which case `var` will have `undef` elements, even if `m` is present in `vi`.
-    r = get_and_set_val!(Random.GLOBAL_RNG, vi, vns, dists, SampleFromPrior())
+    r = reshape(vi[vec(vns)], size(vns))
     lp = sum(Bijectors.logpdf_with_trans.(dists, r, istrans(vi, vns[1])))
     return r, lp
 end
diff --git a/src/varinfo.jl b/src/varinfo.jl
index d7991c73d..15a9bb02b 100644
--- a/src/varinfo.jl
+++ b/src/varinfo.jl
@@ -511,6 +511,8 @@ end
 end
 
 @inline function findranges(f_ranges, f_idcs)
+    # Old implementation was using `mapreduce` but turned out
+    # to be type-unstable.
     results = Int[]
     for i in f_idcs
         append!(results, f_ranges[i])
diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index 37c509610..9ca62c79e 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Zygote = "e88e6eb3-aa80-5325-afca-941959d7151f"
 
 [compat]
 AbstractMCMC = "2.1, 3.0"
-AbstractPPL = "0.1.3"
+AbstractPPL = "0.1.4, 0.2"
 Bijectors = "0.9.5"
 Distributions = "< 0.25.11"
 DistributionsAD = "0.6.3"
diff --git a/test/turing/Project.toml b/test/turing/Project.toml
index 67b8d5645..05e6fb55e 100644
--- a/test/turing/Project.toml
+++ b/test/turing/Project.toml
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 Turing = "fce5fe82-541a-59a6-adf8-730c64b5f9a0"
 
 [compat]
-DynamicPPL = "0.12"
+DynamicPPL = "0.13"
 Turing = "0.15, 0.16"
 julia = "1.3"