diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md
index 2a434837633..94a0a31c7bb 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.md
+++ b/AUTHORS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 # Contributors
 
 * auxten [auxten@clickhouse.com](mailto:auxten@clickhouse.com)
+* Daniel Robbins  [elongaos@gmail.com](mailto:elongaos@gmail.com)
+* Lorenzo Mangani  [lorenzo.mangani@gmail.com](mailto:lorenzo.mangani@gmail.com)
+* nmreadelf  [frank.q.kong@hotmail.com](mailto:frank.q.kong@hotmail.com)
+* laodouya  [laodouya@yeah.net](mailto:laodouya@yeah.net)
+* DemoYeti  [164791169+DemoYeti@users.noreply.github.com](mailto:164791169+DemoYeti@users.noreply.github.com)
+* Michael Razuvaev  [razuvaev@yandex-team.ru](mailto:razuvaev@yandex-team.ru)
+* Nevin  [nevinpuri1901@gmail.com](mailto:nevinpuri1901@gmail.com)
+* Yunyu Lin  [mail@yunyul.in](mailto:mail@yunyul.in)
+* reema93jain  [113460610+reema93jain@users.noreply.github.com](mailto:113460610+reema93jain@users.noreply.github.com)
+* xinhuitian  [xinhui_tian@126.com](mailto:xinhui_tian@126.com)
+* Alex Bocharov  [alex@x.ai](mailto:alex@x.ai)
+* meastham [meastham@ramp.com](mailto:meastham@ramp.com)
 
 To see the list of authors who created the source code of ClickHouse, published and distributed by ClickHouse, Inc. as the owner,
 run "SELECT * FROM system.contributors;" query on any ClickHouse server.
diff --git a/programs/local/LocalChdb.cpp b/programs/local/LocalChdb.cpp
index bb6f2904889..c6b7b3703c6 100644
--- a/programs/local/LocalChdb.cpp
+++ b/programs/local/LocalChdb.cpp
@@ -285,8 +285,12 @@ connection_wrapper::~connection_wrapper()
 
 void connection_wrapper::close()
 {
-    py::gil_scoped_release release;
-    close_conn(conn);
+    {
+        py::gil_scoped_release release;
+        close_conn(conn);
+    }
+    // Ensure that if a new connection is created before this object is destroyed that we don't try to close it.
+    conn = nullptr;
 }
 
 cursor_wrapper * connection_wrapper::cursor()