diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3c2ae396..74deeee7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ and this project adheres to
 
 
 <!--
-## [v0.107.3] - 2022-01-19 (APPROX.)
+## [v0.107.3] - 2022-02-08 (APPROX.)
 -->
 
 
diff --git a/internal/aghalg/aghalg.go b/internal/aghalg/aghalg.go
index c3b6e906..3a9b07db 100644
--- a/internal/aghalg/aghalg.go
+++ b/internal/aghalg/aghalg.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ func (uc UniqChecker) Add(elems ...comparable) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Merge returns a validator containing data from both v and other.
+// Merge returns a checker containing data from both uc and other.
 func (uc UniqChecker) Merge(other UniqChecker) (merged UniqChecker) {
 	merged = make(UniqChecker, len(uc)+len(other))
 	for elem, num := range uc {
diff --git a/internal/home/controlinstall.go b/internal/home/controlinstall.go
index b9c302ee..82598078 100644
--- a/internal/home/controlinstall.go
+++ b/internal/home/controlinstall.go
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ func (req *checkConfReq) validateWeb(uc aghalg.UniqChecker) (err error) {
 }
 
 // validateDNS returns error if the DNS part of the initial configuration can't
-// be set.  autofix is true if the port can be unbound by AdGuard Home
+// be set.  canAutofix is true if the port can be unbound by AdGuard Home
 // automatically.
 func (req *checkConfReq) validateDNS(uc aghalg.UniqChecker) (canAutofix bool, err error) {
 	defer func() { err = errors.Annotate(err, "validating ports: %w") }()
diff --git a/internal/home/dns.go b/internal/home/dns.go
index dfd133eb..8775e152 100644
--- a/internal/home/dns.go
+++ b/internal/home/dns.go
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ func initDNSServer() (err error) {
 	}
 	Context.stats, err = stats.New(statsConf)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("couldn't initialize statistics module")
+		return fmt.Errorf("init stats: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	conf := querylog.Config{
diff --git a/internal/stats/unit.go b/internal/stats/unit.go
index 43119907..35d47a51 100644
--- a/internal/stats/unit.go
+++ b/internal/stats/unit.go
@@ -67,7 +67,29 @@ type unitDB struct {
 	TimeAvg uint32 // usec
 }
 
+// withRecovered turns the value recovered from panic if any into an error and
+// combines it with the one pointed by orig.  orig must be non-nil.
+func withRecovered(orig *error) {
+	p := recover()
+	if p == nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	var err error
+	switch p := p.(type) {
+	case error:
+		err = fmt.Errorf("panic: %w", p)
+	default:
+		err = fmt.Errorf("panic: recovered value of type %[1]T: %[1]v", p)
+	}
+
+	*orig = errors.WithDeferred(*orig, err)
+}
+
+// createObject creates s from conf and properly initializes it.
 func createObject(conf Config) (s *statsCtx, err error) {
+	defer withRecovered(&err)
+
 	s = &statsCtx{
 		mu: &sync.Mutex{},
 	}