v1.17.0 (November 13th 2015)

• fixing URI.removeQuery() to cast values to string before matching - Issue #250, Issue #252, by ryanelian and Siltaar
• fixing .segment() to allow appending an empty element - Issue #236, Issue #253, by orlando
• adding .origin() to get protocol and authority, counter-part to .resource() - Issue #210, Issue #263, by justinmchase