diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index fd7be27178..b1d8969014 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,19 @@ upgrade, just in case you need to roll back to the previous version.
 by version X, but the inverse is not necessarily the case.)
 
 
+1.1.3
+=====
+
+Upgrading
+---------
+    - Nothing specific to this release, but please see 1.1 if you are upgrading
+      from a previous version.
+
+Features
+--------
+    - the cqlsh COPY command can now export to CSV flat files
+    - added a new tools/bin/token-generator to facilitate generating evenly distributed tokens
+
 1.1.2
 =====
 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 60903a6cc9..e23483ccef 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="1.1.2"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="1.1.3"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree"/>
diff --git a/debian/cassandra.install b/debian/cassandra.install
index f706bd9629..04e8d4f4db 100644
--- a/debian/cassandra.install
+++ b/debian/cassandra.install
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ bin/sstablekeys usr/bin
 bin/sstableloader usr/bin
 bin/cqlsh usr/bin
 tools/bin/cassandra-stress usr/bin
+tools/bin/token-generator usr/bin
 lib/*.jar usr/share/cassandra/lib
 lib/*.zip usr/share/cassandra/lib
 lib/licenses usr/share/doc/cassandra
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4b97f75c84..946498c1ef 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cassandra (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New release
+
+ -- Sylvain Lebresne <slebresne@apache.org>  Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:33:25 +0200
+
 cassandra (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New release
diff --git a/tools/bin/token-generator b/tools/bin/token-generator
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 57d7fcef1a..c958529e0b
--- a/tools/bin/token-generator
+++ b/tools/bin/token-generator
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
 import os