diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 10a5c91c40a..f17895948f0 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ Release 2.0.1-alpha - UNRELEASED
     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)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-3042 SUBTASKS
 
     HADOOP-8220. ZKFailoverController doesn't handle failure to become active
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
index 38512c7d09d..a12cf423340 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@
     <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 fa8ab5b6874..1023c362d0d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/pom.xml
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>