diff --git a/changelog/378.bugfix.rst b/changelog/378.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ceb0af8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/378.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix support for gevent monkeypatching
diff --git a/changelog/384.bugfix.rst b/changelog/384.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ea011e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/384.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add support for pytest 4.1.
diff --git a/testing/acceptance_test.py b/testing/acceptance_test.py
index e4bccaf..2c026d4 100644
--- a/testing/acceptance_test.py
+++ b/testing/acceptance_test.py
@@ -541,16 +541,15 @@ def test_session_testscollected(testdir):
     assert collected_file.read() == "collected = 3"
 
 
-def test_funcarg_teardown_failure(testdir):
+def test_fixture_teardown_failure(testdir):
     p = testdir.makepyfile(
         """
         import pytest
-        @pytest.fixture
+        @pytest.fixture(scope="module")
         def myarg(request):
-            def teardown(val):
-                raise ValueError(val)
-            return request.cached_setup(setup=lambda: 42, teardown=teardown,
-                scope="module")
+            yield 42
+            raise ValueError(42)
+
         def test_hello(myarg):
             pass
     """
@@ -636,6 +635,11 @@ def test_skipping(testdir):
 
 
 def test_issue34_pluginloading_in_subprocess(testdir):
+    import _pytest.hookspec
+
+    if not hasattr(_pytest.hookspec, "pytest_namespace"):
+        pytest.skip("this pytest version no longer supports pytest_namespace()")
+
     testdir.tmpdir.join("plugin123.py").write(
         textwrap.dedent(
             """
diff --git a/xdist/looponfail.py b/xdist/looponfail.py
index d49a05b..ef68c6e 100644
--- a/xdist/looponfail.py
+++ b/xdist/looponfail.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def pytest_cmdline_main(config):
     if config.getoption("looponfail"):
         usepdb = config.getoption("usepdb")  # a core option
         if usepdb:
-            raise pytest.UsageError("--pdb incompatible with --looponfail.")
+            raise pytest.UsageError("--pdb is incompatible with --looponfail.")
         looponfail_main(config)
         return 2  # looponfail only can get stop with ctrl-C anyway
 
diff --git a/xdist/plugin.py b/xdist/plugin.py
index ce8f643..3cff561 100644
--- a/xdist/plugin.py
+++ b/xdist/plugin.py
@@ -126,12 +126,12 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
     )
     parser.addini(
         "rsyncdirs",
-        "list of (relative) paths to be rsynced for" " remote distributed testing.",
+        "list of (relative) paths to be rsynced for remote distributed testing.",
         type="pathlist",
     )
     parser.addini(
         "rsyncignore",
-        "list of (relative) glob-style paths to be ignored " "for rsyncing.",
+        "list of (relative) glob-style paths to be ignored for rsyncing.",
         type="pathlist",
     )
     parser.addini(
diff --git a/xdist/scheduler/loadscope.py b/xdist/scheduler/loadscope.py
index 2917fc0..426d340 100644
--- a/xdist/scheduler/loadscope.py
+++ b/xdist/scheduler/loadscope.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class LoadScopeScheduling(object):
             break
         else:
             raise RuntimeError(
-                "Unable to identify crashitem on a workload with " "pending items"
+                "Unable to identify crashitem on a workload with pending items"
             )
 
         # Made uncompleted work unit available again
diff --git a/xdist/workermanage.py b/xdist/workermanage.py
index 3b35c14..418a66c 100644
--- a/xdist/workermanage.py
+++ b/xdist/workermanage.py
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ class WorkerController(object):
         if not self._down:
             try:
                 self.sendcommand("shutdown")
-            except IOError:
+            except (IOError, OSError):
                 pass
             self._shutdown_sent = True
 
@@ -345,7 +345,11 @@ class WorkerController(object):
         except:  # noqa
             from _pytest._code import ExceptionInfo
 
-            excinfo = ExceptionInfo()
+            # ExceptionInfo API changed in pytest 4.1
+            if hasattr(ExceptionInfo, "from_current"):
+                excinfo = ExceptionInfo.from_current()
+            else:
+                excinfo = ExceptionInfo()
             print("!" * 20, excinfo)
             self.config.notify_exception(excinfo)
             self.shutdown()