diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9e0d4dc8..3fd2955a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ Babashka:
 
 - Sort tasks in `bb tasks` output
 
+Experimental:
+
+- Add `bb run --parallel <task>`
+- Fix `:init` in  `:tasks`
+
 Deps.clj:
 
 - Fix arg parsing when invoking from Powershell [#42](https://github.com/borkdude/deps.clj/issues/42)
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj b/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
index 41bcab09..9e9f2e65 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
         task (get tasks task-name)]
     (if task
       (let [m? (map? task)
-            init (and m? (get tasks :init))
+            init (get tasks :init)
             prog (if-let [depends (when m? (:depends task))]
                    (let [targets (target-order tasks task-name)]
                      (loop [prog ""
@@ -154,7 +154,9 @@
                                [[(format-task init prog)] nil])
                              [(binding [*out* *err*]
                                 (println "No such task:" task-name)) 1])))))
-                   [[(format-task init (assemble-task-1 task-name task parallel? true))] nil])]
+                   [[(format-task
+                      init
+                      (assemble-task-1 task-name task parallel? true))] nil])]
         (when (= "true" (System/getenv "BABASHKA_DEV"))
           (println (ffirst prog)))
         prog)
diff --git a/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj b/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
index fd19609e..f47a44fc 100644
--- a/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
+++ b/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@
         (bb "foo")
         (is (= "quux\nbaz\nbar\nfoo\n" (slurp out)))))
     (fs/delete out)
+    (testing "init test"
+      (test-utils/with-config '{:tasks {:init (def x 1)
+                                        foo x}}
+        (is (= 1 (bb "foo")))))
     ;; Note: this behavior with :when was complex, since the place where :when
     ;; is inserted isn't very intuitive here
     ;; This is why we don't support :when for now