diff --git a/.github/workflows/minimum.yml b/.github/workflows/minimum.yml
index 459f72983..0685927c0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/minimum.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/minimum.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         julia-version: [min]
         julia-arch: [x64]
-        os: [ubuntu-22.04, macos-12, windows-2019]
+        os: [ubuntu-22.04, macos-13, windows-2019]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v2
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5fc9f88f7..647d85eb5 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+MixedModels v4.27.1 Release Notes
+==============================
+- `profile` now includes a `finally` block to restore the original model even if an error occurs before profiling is complete [#795]
+
 MixedModels v4.27.0 Release Notes
 ==============================
 - `saveoptsum` and `restoreoptsum!` now support `GeneralizedLinearMixedModel`s [#791]
@@ -575,3 +579,4 @@ Package dependencies
 [#783]: https://github.com/JuliaStats/MixedModels.jl/issues/783
 [#785]: https://github.com/JuliaStats/MixedModels.jl/issues/785
 [#791]: https://github.com/JuliaStats/MixedModels.jl/issues/791
+[#795]: https://github.com/JuliaStats/MixedModels.jl/issues/795
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 42348b1eb..7c2c65bc5 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "MixedModels"
 uuid = "ff71e718-51f3-5ec2-a782-8ffcbfa3c316"
 author = ["Phillip Alday <me@phillipalday.com>", "Douglas Bates <dmbates@gmail.com>", "Jose Bayoan Santiago Calderon <jbs3hp@virginia.edu>"]
-version = "4.27.0"
+version = "4.27.1"
 
 [deps]
 Arrow = "69666777-d1a9-59fb-9406-91d4454c9d45"
diff --git a/src/profile/profile.jl b/src/profile/profile.jl
index e3cd52abc..82d71944c 100644
--- a/src/profile/profile.jl
+++ b/src/profile/profile.jl
@@ -35,23 +35,30 @@ value of ζ exceeds `threshold`.
 function profile(m::LinearMixedModel; threshold=4)
     isfitted(m) || refit!(m)
     final = copy(m.optsum.final)
-    tc = TableColumns(m)
-    val = profileσ(m, tc; threshold) # FIXME: defer creating the splines until the whole table is constructed
-    objective!(m, final)   # restore the parameter estimates
-    for s in filter(s -> startswith(string(s), 'β'), keys(first(val.tbl)))
-        profileβj!(val, tc, s; threshold)
-    end
-    copyto!(m.optsum.final, final)
-    m.optsum.fmin = objective!(m, final)
-    for s in filter(s -> startswith(string(s), 'θ'), keys(first(val.tbl)))
-        profileθj!(val, s, tc; threshold)
+    profile = try
+        tc = TableColumns(m)
+        val = profileσ(m, tc; threshold) # FIXME: defer creating the splines until the whole table is constructed
+        objective!(m, final)   # restore the parameter estimates
+        for s in filter(s -> startswith(string(s), 'β'), keys(first(val.tbl)))
+            profileβj!(val, tc, s; threshold)
+        end
+        copyto!(m.optsum.final, final)
+        m.optsum.fmin = objective!(m, final)
+        for s in filter(s -> startswith(string(s), 'θ'), keys(first(val.tbl)))
+            profileθj!(val, s, tc; threshold)
+        end
+        profileσs!(val, tc)
+        MixedModelProfile(m, Table(val.tbl), val.fwd, val.rev)
+    catch ex
+        @error "Exception occurred in profiling; aborting..."
+        rethrow()
+    finally
+        objective!(m, final)   # restore the parameter estimates
+        copyto!(m.optsum.final, final)
+        m.optsum.fmin = objective(m)
+        m.optsum.sigma = nothing
     end
-    profileσs!(val, tc)
-    objective!(m, final)   # restore the parameter estimates
-    copyto!(m.optsum.final, final)
-    m.optsum.fmin = objective(m)
-    m.optsum.sigma = nothing
-    return MixedModelProfile(m, Table(val.tbl), val.fwd, val.rev)
+    return profile
 end
 
 """
diff --git a/test/pls.jl b/test/pls.jl
index 98d239ec3..95b1e877b 100644
--- a/test/pls.jl
+++ b/test/pls.jl
@@ -725,6 +725,13 @@ end
     # very loose tolerance for unstable fit
     # but this is a convenient test of rankUpdate!(::UniformBlockDiagonal)
     @test isapprox(m.θ, θnlopt; atol=5e-2)
+
+    @testset "profile" begin
+        # TODO: actually handle the case here so that it doesn't error and
+        # create a separate test of the error handling code
+        @test_logs((:error, "Exception occurred in profiling; aborting..."),
+                    @test_throws Exception profile(last(models(:oxide))))
+    end
 end
 
 @testset "Rank deficient" begin