diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 858bbf89f8..077a9863cd 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 1.2.8
  * cqlsh: add collections support to COPY (CASSANDRA-5698)
+ * retry important messages for any IOException (CASSANDRA-5804)
 
 
 1.2.7
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/OutboundTcpConnection.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/OutboundTcpConnection.java
index 648123bd5b..4edac5dd72 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/OutboundTcpConnection.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/OutboundTcpConnection.java
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ public class OutboundTcpConnection extends Thread
 
                 // if the message was important, such as a repair acknowledgement, put it back on the queue
                 // to retry after re-connecting.  See CASSANDRA-5393
-                if (e instanceof SocketException && qm.shouldRetry())
+                if (qm.shouldRetry())
                 {
                     try
                     {