diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index d9d83a4d911..942c6f8a843 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-4189. TestContainerManagerSecurity is failing (Devaraj K via
     bobby)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4209. junit dependency in hadoop-mapreduce-client is missing
+    scope test (Radim Kolar via bobby)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/pom.xml
index 91ad8275055..fc71d5d98ab 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/pom.xml
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.netty</groupId>