diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 70b9ac6bad1..4a747246303 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
     "raf": "^3.0.0",
     "run-sequence": "^1.1.2",
     "run-series": "^1.1.2",
-    "scout-client": "http://bin.mongodb.org/js/scout-client/v0.1.4/scout-client-0.1.4.tar.gz",
+    "scout-client": "http://bin.mongodb.org/js/scout-client/v0.1.6/scout-client-0.1.6.tar.gz",
     "stream-combiner2": "^1.0.2",
     "uuid": "^2.0.1",
     "vinyl-buffer": "^1.0.0",
diff --git a/src/connect/index.js b/src/connect/index.js
index 640ae2aa6c0..7003d8444e0 100644
--- a/src/connect/index.js
+++ b/src/connect/index.js
@@ -374,7 +374,14 @@ var ConnectView = View.extend({
   onConnectionSelected: function(model) {
     // If the new model has auth, expand the auth settings container
     // and select the correct tab.
-    this.authMethod = model.auth_mechanism;
+    // @note (imlucas): gross, but `this.authMethod` is only used
+    // for managing auth-fields.js so make this pretty when
+    // there's more time.
+    if (model.auth_mechanism === 'MONGODB-CR') {
+      this.authMethod = 'SCRAM-SHA-1';
+    } else {
+      this.authMethod = model.auth_mechanism;
+    }
 
     if (model.auth_mechanism !== null) {
       this.authOpen = true;