v1.7.16

It was brought to my attention that 1.7.15 didn't fix what it was intended to; this version should actually fix the issue where instead of getting a meaningful exception message when a connection could be created, you would get the message 'conn is referenced before being initialized'.

What's Changed

• Fix issue with conn not initialized by @benc-db in #671

Full Changelog: v1.7.15...v1.7.16