diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b0b6557e..a2557324 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "hyper-rustls"
-version = "0.27.2"
+version = "0.27.3"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.70"
 license = "Apache-2.0 OR ISC OR MIT"
@@ -10,13 +10,25 @@ homepage = "https://github.com/rustls/hyper-rustls"
 repository = "https://github.com/rustls/hyper-rustls"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/hyper-rustls/"
 
+[features]
+default = ["native-tokio", "http1", "tls12", "logging", "aws-lc-rs"]
+aws-lc-rs = ["rustls/aws_lc_rs"]
+fips = ["aws-lc-rs", "rustls/fips"]
+http1 = ["hyper-util/http1"]
+http2 = ["hyper-util/http2"]
+logging = ["log", "tokio-rustls/logging", "rustls/logging"]
+native-tokio = ["rustls-native-certs"]
+ring = ["rustls/ring"]
+tls12 = ["tokio-rustls/tls12", "rustls/tls12"]
+webpki-tokio = ["webpki-roots"]
+
 [dependencies]
 http = "1"
 hyper = { version = "1", default-features = false }
 hyper-util = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["client-legacy", "tokio"] }
 log = { version = "0.4.4", optional = true }
 pki-types = { package = "rustls-pki-types", version = "1" }
-rustls-native-certs = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
+rustls-native-certs = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 rustls-platform-verifier = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 rustls = { version = "0.23", default-features = false }
 tokio = "1.0"
@@ -32,18 +44,6 @@ rustls = { version = "0.23", default-features = false, features = ["tls12"] }
 rustls-pemfile = "2"
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["io-std", "macros", "net", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 
-[features]
-default = ["native-tokio", "http1", "tls12", "logging", "aws-lc-rs"]
-aws-lc-rs = ["rustls/aws_lc_rs"]
-http1 = ["hyper-util/http1"]
-http2 = ["hyper-util/http2"]
-webpki-tokio = ["webpki-roots"]
-native-tokio = ["rustls-native-certs"]
-ring = ["rustls/ring"]
-tls12 = ["tokio-rustls/tls12", "rustls/tls12"]
-logging = ["log", "tokio-rustls/logging", "rustls/logging"]
-fips = ["aws-lc-rs", "rustls/fips"]
-
 [[example]]
 name = "client"
 path = "examples/client.rs"
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 2af49c76..13de77d9 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#[cfg(feature = "rustls-native-certs")]
+use std::io;
 #[cfg(feature = "rustls-platform-verifier")]
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
@@ -8,6 +10,8 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 ))]
 use rustls::client::WantsClientCert;
 use rustls::{ClientConfig, ConfigBuilder, WantsVerifier};
+#[cfg(feature = "rustls-native-certs")]
+use rustls_native_certs::CertificateResult;
 
 /// Methods for configuring roots
 ///
@@ -28,7 +32,7 @@ pub trait ConfigBuilderExt {
     /// This will return an error if no valid certs were found. In that case,
     /// it's recommended to use `with_webpki_roots`.
     #[cfg(feature = "rustls-native-certs")]
-    fn with_native_roots(self) -> std::io::Result<ConfigBuilder<ClientConfig, WantsClientCert>>;
+    fn with_native_roots(self) -> Result<ConfigBuilder<ClientConfig, WantsClientCert>, io::Error>;
 
     /// This configures the webpki roots, which are Mozilla's set of
     /// trusted roots as packaged by webpki-roots.
@@ -47,13 +51,24 @@ impl ConfigBuilderExt for ConfigBuilder<ClientConfig, WantsVerifier> {
 
     #[cfg(feature = "rustls-native-certs")]
     #[cfg_attr(not(feature = "logging"), allow(unused_variables))]
-    fn with_native_roots(self) -> std::io::Result<ConfigBuilder<ClientConfig, WantsClientCert>> {
+    fn with_native_roots(self) -> Result<ConfigBuilder<ClientConfig, WantsClientCert>, io::Error> {
         let mut roots = rustls::RootCertStore::empty();
         let mut valid_count = 0;
         let mut invalid_count = 0;
 
-        for cert in rustls_native_certs::load_native_certs().expect("could not load platform certs")
-        {
+        let CertificateResult { certs, errors, .. } = rustls_native_certs::load_native_certs();
+        if !errors.is_empty() {
+            crate::log::warn!("native root CA certificate loading errors: {errors:?}");
+        }
+
+        if certs.is_empty() {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::NotFound,
+                format!("no native root CA certificates found (errors: {errors:?})"),
+            ));
+        }
+
+        for cert in certs {
             match roots.add(cert) {
                 Ok(_) => valid_count += 1,
                 Err(err) => {
@@ -62,6 +77,7 @@ impl ConfigBuilderExt for ConfigBuilder<ClientConfig, WantsVerifier> {
                 }
             }
         }
+
         crate::log::debug!(
             "with_native_roots processed {} valid and {} invalid certs",
             valid_count,
@@ -69,8 +85,8 @@ impl ConfigBuilderExt for ConfigBuilder<ClientConfig, WantsVerifier> {
         );
         if roots.is_empty() {
             crate::log::debug!("no valid native root CA certificates found");
-            Err(std::io::Error::new(
-                std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound,
+            Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::NotFound,
                 format!("no valid native root CA certificates found ({invalid_count} invalid)"),
             ))?
         }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 1920e78f..89e355ae 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ mod stream;
 mod log {
     #[cfg(any(feature = "rustls-native-certs", feature = "webpki-roots"))]
     pub(crate) use log::debug;
+    #[cfg(feature = "rustls-native-certs")]
+    pub(crate) use log::warn;
 }
 
 #[cfg(not(feature = "logging"))]
@@ -51,6 +53,10 @@ mod log {
     macro_rules! debug    ( ($($tt:tt)*) => {{}} );
     #[cfg(any(feature = "rustls-native-certs", feature = "webpki-roots"))]
     pub(crate) use debug;
+    #[cfg(feature = "rustls-native-certs")]
+    macro_rules! warn_    ( ($($tt:tt)*) => {{}} );
+    #[cfg(feature = "rustls-native-certs")]
+    pub(crate) use warn_ as warn;
 }
 
 pub use crate::config::ConfigBuilderExt;