diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 22b2745f..c53c6731 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,28 @@
-1.1.0
+1.1.2
 =====
 In Progress
 
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+* Update token metadata (for TokenAware calculations) when a node is removed
+  from the ring
+* Fix file handle leak with gevent reactor due to blocking Greenlet kills when
+  closing excess connections
+* Avoid handling a node coming up multiple times due to a reconnection attempt
+  succeeding close to the same time that an UP notification is pushed
+
+1.1.1
+=====
+April 16, 2014
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+* Fix unconditional import of nose in setup.py (github #111)
+
+1.1.0
+=====
+April 16, 2014
+
 Features
 --------
 * Gevent is now supported through monkey-patching the stdlib (PYTHON-7,
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 3b224f67..f56c6d13 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ you can use `freenode's web-based client <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=
 Features to be Added
 --------------------
 * C extension for encoding/decoding messages
-* Twisted, gevent support
+* Twisted support
 * Python 3 support
 * IPv6 Support
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/base.py b/benchmarks/base.py
index d6ed3005..ae4b44fc 100644
--- a/benchmarks/base.py
+++ b/benchmarks/base.py
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ def benchmark(thread_class):
         time.sleep(2.0)
 
         query = session.prepare("""
-            INSERT INTO {table} (thekey, col1, col2) VALUES (?, ?, ?))
+            INSERT INTO {table} (thekey, col1, col2) VALUES (?, ?, ?)
             """.format(table=TABLE))
         values = ('key', 'a', 'b')
 
diff --git a/cassandra/cluster.py b/cassandra/cluster.py
index 9ef50d81..67dea040 100644
--- a/cassandra/cluster.py
+++ b/cassandra/cluster.py
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ class Cluster(object):
         host._handle_node_up_condition.acquire()
         while host._currently_handling_node_up:
             host._handle_node_up_condition.wait()
-        host.handling_up_down = True
+        host._currently_handling_node_up = True
         host._handle_node_up_condition.release()
 
         if host.is_up:
@@ -770,6 +770,7 @@ class Cluster(object):
             session.on_remove(host)
         for listener in self.listeners:
             listener.on_remove(host)
+        self.control_connection.on_remove(host)
 
     def signal_connection_failure(self, host, connection_exc, is_host_addition):
         is_down = host.signal_connection_failure(connection_exc)
@@ -1716,10 +1717,10 @@ class ControlConnection(object):
         if change_type == "UP":
             if host is None:
                 # this is the first time we've seen the node
-                self._cluster.scheduler.schedule(1, self.refresh_node_list_and_token_map)
+                self._cluster.scheduler.schedule(2, self.refresh_node_list_and_token_map)
             else:
                 # this will be run by the scheduler
-                self._cluster.scheduler.schedule(1, self._cluster.on_up, host)
+                self._cluster.scheduler.schedule(2, self._cluster.on_up, host)
         elif change_type == "DOWN":
             # Note that there is a slight risk we can receive the event late and thus
             # mark the host down even though we already had reconnected successfully.
diff --git a/cassandra/io/geventreactor.py b/cassandra/io/geventreactor.py
index 27b92979..d9e8ddc1 100644
--- a/cassandra/io/geventreactor.py
+++ b/cassandra/io/geventreactor.py
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ class GeventConnection(Connection):
 
         log.debug("Closing connection (%s) to %s" % (id(self), self.host))
         if self._read_watcher:
-            self._read_watcher.kill()
+            self._read_watcher.kill(block=False)
         if self._write_watcher:
-            self._write_watcher.kill()
+            self._write_watcher.kill(block=False)
         if self._socket:
             self._socket.close()
         log.debug("Closed socket to %s" % (self.host,))
@@ -122,8 +122,9 @@ class GeventConnection(Connection):
                 next_msg = self._write_queue.get()
                 run_select()
             except Exception as exc:
-                log.debug("Exception during write select() for %s: %s", self, exc)
-                self.defunct(exc)
+                if not self.is_closed:
+                    log.debug("Exception during write select() for %s: %s", self, exc)
+                    self.defunct(exc)
                 return
 
             try:
@@ -139,8 +140,9 @@ class GeventConnection(Connection):
             try:
                 run_select()
             except Exception as exc:
-                log.debug("Exception during read select() for %s: %s", self, exc)
-                self.defunct(exc)
+                if not self.is_closed:
+                    log.debug("Exception during read select() for %s: %s", self, exc)
+                    self.defunct(exc)
                 return
 
             try:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f4ecfa5e..11f7322d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ import sys
 import ez_setup
 ez_setup.use_setuptools()
 
+run_gevent_nosetests = False
 if __name__ == '__main__' and sys.argv[1] == "gevent_nosetests":
     from gevent.monkey import patch_all
     patch_all()
+    run_gevent_nosetests = True
 
 from setuptools import setup
 from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
@@ -39,8 +41,6 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     has_subprocess = False
 
-from nose.commands import nosetests
-
 from cassandra import __version__
 
 long_description = ""
@@ -48,8 +48,12 @@ with open("README.rst") as f:
     long_description = f.read()
 
 
-class gevent_nosetests(nosetests):
-    description = "run nosetests with gevent monkey patching"
+gevent_nosetests = None
+if run_gevent_nosetests:
+    from nose.commands import nosetests
+
+    class gevent_nosetests(nosetests):
+        description = "run nosetests with gevent monkey patching"
 
 
 class DocCommand(Command):
@@ -169,7 +173,10 @@ On OSX, via homebrew:
 
 
 def run_setup(extensions):
-    kw = {'cmdclass': {'doc': DocCommand, 'gevent_nosetests': gevent_nosetests}}
+    kw = {'cmdclass': {'doc': DocCommand}}
+    if gevent_nosetests is not None:
+        kw['cmdclass']['gevent_nosetests'] = gevent_nosetests
+
     if extensions:
         kw['cmdclass']['build_ext'] = build_extensions
         kw['ext_modules'] = extensions
diff --git a/tests/integration/long/test_loadbalancingpolicies.py b/tests/integration/long/test_loadbalancingpolicies.py
index 6cbf575f..9ccce6de 100644
--- a/tests/integration/long/test_loadbalancingpolicies.py
+++ b/tests/integration/long/test_loadbalancingpolicies.py
@@ -367,14 +367,29 @@ class LoadBalancingPolicyTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.coordinator_stats.assert_query_count_equals(self, 3, 0)
 
         self.coordinator_stats.reset_counts()
+        stop(2)
+        wait_for_down(cluster, 2, wait=True)
+
+        try:
+            self._query(session, keyspace, use_prepared=use_prepared)
+            self.fail()
+        except Unavailable:
+            pass
+
+        self.coordinator_stats.reset_counts()
+        start(2)
+        wait_for_up(cluster, 2, wait=True)
         decommission(2)
         wait_for_down(cluster, 2, wait=True)
 
         self._query(session, keyspace, use_prepared=use_prepared)
 
-        self.coordinator_stats.assert_query_count_equals(self, 1, 6)
+        results = set([
+            self.coordinator_stats.get_query_count(1),
+            self.coordinator_stats.get_query_count(3)
+        ])
+        self.assertEqual(results, set([0, 12]))
         self.coordinator_stats.assert_query_count_equals(self, 2, 0)
-        self.coordinator_stats.assert_query_count_equals(self, 3, 6)
 
     def test_token_aware_composite_key(self):
         use_singledc()
diff --git a/tests/integration/standard/test_connection.py b/tests/integration/standard/test_connection.py
index f4fb8779..582fe4b7 100644
--- a/tests/integration/standard/test_connection.py
+++ b/tests/integration/standard/test_connection.py
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ from functools import partial
 import sys
 from threading import Thread, Event
 
-from cassandra import ConsistencyLevel
+from cassandra import ConsistencyLevel, OperationTimedOut
+from cassandra.cluster import NoHostAvailable
 from cassandra.decoder import QueryMessage
 from cassandra.io.asyncorereactor import AsyncoreConnection
 
@@ -37,11 +38,33 @@ class ConnectionTest(object):
 
     klass = None
 
+    def get_connection(self):
+        """
+        Helper method to solve automated testing issues within Jenkins.
+        Officially patched under the 2.0 branch through
+        17998ef72a2fe2e67d27dd602b6ced33a58ad8ef, but left as is for the
+        1.0 branch due to possible regressions for fixing an
+        automated testing edge-case.
+        """
+        conn = None
+        e = None
+        for i in xrange(5):
+            try:
+                conn = self.klass.factory(protocol_version=PROTOCOL_VERSION)
+                break
+            except (OperationTimedOut, NoHostAvailable) as e:
+                continue
+
+        if conn:
+            return conn
+        else:
+            raise e
+
     def test_single_connection(self):
         """
         Test a single connection with sequential requests.
         """
-        conn = self.klass.factory(protocol_version=PROTOCOL_VERSION)
+        conn = self.get_connection()
         query = "SELECT keyspace_name FROM system.schema_keyspaces LIMIT 1"
         event = Event()
 
@@ -64,7 +87,7 @@ class ConnectionTest(object):
         """
         Test a single connection with pipelined requests.
         """
-        conn = self.klass.factory(protocol_version=PROTOCOL_VERSION)
+        conn = self.get_connection()
         query = "SELECT keyspace_name FROM system.schema_keyspaces LIMIT 1"
         responses = [False] * 100
         event = Event()
@@ -86,7 +109,7 @@ class ConnectionTest(object):
         """
         Test multiple connections with pipelined requests.
         """
-        conns = [self.klass.factory(protocol_version=PROTOCOL_VERSION) for i in range(5)]
+        conns = [self.get_connection() for i in range(5)]
         events = [Event() for i in range(5)]
         query = "SELECT keyspace_name FROM system.schema_keyspaces LIMIT 1"
 
@@ -117,7 +140,7 @@ class ConnectionTest(object):
         num_threads = 5
         event = Event()
 
-        conn = self.klass.factory(protocol_version=PROTOCOL_VERSION)
+        conn = self.get_connection()
         query = "SELECT keyspace_name FROM system.schema_keyspaces LIMIT 1"
 
         def cb(all_responses, thread_responses, request_num, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -174,7 +197,7 @@ class ConnectionTest(object):
 
         threads = []
         for i in range(num_conns):
-            conn = self.klass.factory(protocol_version=PROTOCOL_VERSION)
+            conn = self.get_connection()
             t = Thread(target=send_msgs, args=(conn, events[i]))
             threads.append(t)