diff --git a/Dancer1/Changes b/Dancer1/Changes
index f14fa2cb..127b2cd0 100644
--- a/Dancer1/Changes
+++ b/Dancer1/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Revision history for Dancer-Plugin-Database
 
+2.14    2018-11-20
+        [ ENHANCEMENTS ]
+        - added pre database connection hook
+
 2.13    2016-08-13
         [ BUG FIXES ]
         - Require 0.16 of core library, as 0.15 had a bug in :(
diff --git a/Dancer1/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database.pm b/Dancer1/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database.pm
index e3923b25..fe18b622 100644
--- a/Dancer1/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database.pm
+++ b/Dancer1/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database.pm
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Dancer::Plugin::Database - easy database connections for Dancer applications
 
 =cut
 
-our $VERSION = '2.13';
+our $VERSION = '2.14';
 
 my $settings = undef;
 
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ register database => sub {
 register_hook(qw(database_connected
                  database_connection_lost
                  database_connection_failed
-                 database_error));
+                 database_error
+                 database_connection_new
+                 ));
 
 register_plugin;
 
@@ -314,6 +316,12 @@ to connect (as obtained from the config file).
 Called when a database error is raised by C<DBI>.  Receives two parameters: the
 error message being returned by DBI, and the database handle in question.
 
+=item C<database_connection_new>
+
+Called when a new database connection is about to be created.  Receives a hashref of
+connection settings as a parameter, containing the settings the plugin will be using
+to connect (as obtained from the config file).
+
 =back
 
 If you need other hook positions which would be useful to you, please feel free
diff --git a/Dancer2/Changes b/Dancer2/Changes
index 09bbd38d..6e52f8a4 100644
--- a/Dancer2/Changes
+++ b/Dancer2/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Revision history for Dancer2-Plugin-Database
 
+2.17    2018-11-20
+        [ ENHANCEMENTS ]
+        - added pre database connection hook
+
 2.17    2016-08-13
 
         [ BUG FIXES ]
diff --git a/Dancer2/lib/Dancer2/Plugin/Database.pm b/Dancer2/lib/Dancer2/Plugin/Database.pm
index 43a45592..c4068b85 100644
--- a/Dancer2/lib/Dancer2/Plugin/Database.pm
+++ b/Dancer2/lib/Dancer2/Plugin/Database.pm
@@ -16,12 +16,13 @@ Dancer2::Plugin::Database - easy database connections for Dancer2 applications
 
 =cut
 
-our $VERSION = '2.17';
+our $VERSION = '2.18';
 
 register_hook qw(database_connected
                  database_connection_lost
                  database_connection_failed
-                 database_error);
+                 database_error
+                 database_connection_new);
 
 
 my $settings = {};
@@ -343,6 +344,12 @@ to connect (as obtained from the config file).
 Called when a database error is raised by C<DBI>.  Receives two parameters: the
 error message being returned by DBI, and the database handle in question.
 
+=item C<database_connection_new>
+
+Called when a new database connection is about to be created.  Receives a hashref of
+connection settings as a parameter, containing the settings the plugin will be using
+to connect (as obtained from the config file).
+
 =back
 
 If you need other hook positions which would be useful to you, please feel free
diff --git a/Shared/Changes b/Shared/Changes
index 1b8bc589..7ed57422 100644
--- a/Shared/Changes
+++ b/Shared/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Revision history for Dancer-Plugin-Database-Core
 
+0.21    2018-11-20
+        [ ENHANCEMENTS ]
+        - added hook for pre database connection
+
 0.20    2016-09-01
         [ ENHANCEMENTS ]
         - Support "ILIKE" for Postgres users (Mario Duhanic)
diff --git a/Shared/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database/Core.pm b/Shared/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database/Core.pm
index 9207da8c..aaee8887 100644
--- a/Shared/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database/Core.pm
+++ b/Shared/lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database/Core.pm
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core - Shared core for D1 and D2 Database plugins
 
 =cut
 
-our $VERSION = '0.20';
+our $VERSION = '0.21';
 
 my %handles;
 # Hashref used as key for default handle, so we don't have a magic value that
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ sub _set_defaults {
 sub _get_connection {
     my ($settings, $logger, $hook_exec) = @_;
 
+    $hook_exec->('database_connection_new', $settings);
     if (!$settings->{dsn} && !$settings->{driver}) {
         die "Can't get a database connection without settings supplied!\n"
             . "Please check you've supplied settings in config as per the "