diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b8180c2..fe5b80d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
-- `TcpDialer` now simply takes a `Url` parameter, rather than a host and a port or a socket address.
-- Added a convenience `repo.dial_tcp()` method to simplify construction of `TcpDialer`. 
-- Allow documents syncing over the TCP transport to be up to 8gb size instead of Tokio's default 8mb frame size
-- Exposed receiving `ConnectionHandle`s via `accept()`. Users can now subscribe to an `events()` stream directly
-  on the handle, or `await` for `handshake_completed()`.
+### Added
+
+- `TcpDialer::new` which takes a `Url` parameter, rather than a host and a port
+  or a socket address.
+- `Repo::dial_tcp()` to simplify construction of `TcpDialer`. 
+- Allow documents syncing over the TCP transport to be up to 8gb size instead
+  of Tokio's default 8mb frame size
+- Exposed receiving `ConnectionHandle`s via `accept()`. Users can now subscribe
+  to an `events()` stream directly on the handle, or `await` for
+  `handshake_completed()`.
 
 ## 0.8.0 - 2024-03-06
 
diff --git a/samod/src/tokio_io.rs b/samod/src/tokio_io.rs
index 001e472..34364f9 100644
--- a/samod/src/tokio_io.rs
+++ b/samod/src/tokio_io.rs
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ impl std::fmt::Debug for TcpDialerError {
 impl std::error::Error for TcpDialerError {}
 
 impl TcpDialer {
+    pub fn new_host_port(host: String, port: u16) -> Self {
+        Self { host, port }
+    }
+
     /// Create a dialer which will resolve the given [`Url`].
     /// The [`Url`] must have the scheme `tcp://`, and must have a valid [`Url::host`] and [`Url::port`].
     pub fn new(url: Url) -> Result<Self, TcpDialerError> {