diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 1f8f5a3a90..65a44bbc91 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -564,8 +564,6 @@ Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07
     HADOOP-8031. Configuration class fails to find embedded .jar resources; 
     should use URL.openStream() (genman via tucu)
 
-    HADOOP-8738. junit JAR is showing up in the distro (tucu)
-
     HADOOP-8737. cmake: always use JAVA_HOME to find libjvm.so, jni.h, jni_md.h.
     (Colin Patrick McCabe via eli)
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
index eb2dc22ca1..294441d4ad 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
index 819519a74c..c1e38967c5 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>