diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 10e71a4816..a324911765 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -471,8 +471,6 @@ Release 2.1.1-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9350. Hadoop not building against Java7 on OSX
     (Robert Kanter via stevel)
 
-    HADOOP-9935. set junit dependency to test scope. (André Kelpe via cnauroth)
-
     HADOOP-9961. versions of a few transitive dependencies diverged between hadoop 
     subprojects. (rvs via tucu)
 
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index e33ea6d889..01b220381f 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -566,7 +566,6 @@
         <groupId>junit</groupId>
         <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
         <version>4.10</version>
-        <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
@@ -627,7 +626,6 @@
         <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
         <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
         <version>1.8.5</version>
-        <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>