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@@ -2098,10 +2098,6 @@ <h2>Changes since Hadoop 2.0.1-alpha</h2>
      Major bug reported by Colin Patrick McCabe and fixed by Colin Patrick McCabe (native)<br>
      <b>Syntax error on cmake version 2.6 patch 2 in JNIFlags.cmake</b><br>
      <blockquote></blockquote></li>
-<li> <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8738">HADOOP-8738</a>.
-     Critical bug reported by Alejandro Abdelnur and fixed by Alejandro Abdelnur (build)<br>
-     <b>junit JAR is showing up in the distro</b><br>
-     <blockquote></blockquote></li>
 <li> <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8737">HADOOP-8737</a>.
      Minor bug reported by Colin Patrick McCabe and fixed by Colin Patrick McCabe (native)<br>
      <b>cmake: always use JAVA_HOME to find libjvm.so, jni.h, jni_md.h</b><br>