diff --git a/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java b/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
index 2543ed0757..3b80679081 100644
--- a/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
+++ b/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ public void run( String[] args )
         for ( Iterator i = reader.getDependencies().iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
         {
             Dependency d = (Dependency) i.next();
-            if ( d.getGroupId().equals( "surefire" ) )
+            if ( d.getGroupId().equals( "surefire" ) || d.getGroupId().equals( "junit" ) )
             {
                 surefireDependencies.add( d );
             }
diff --git a/maven-plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/pom.xml b/maven-plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/pom.xml
index 71da6493e0..ee1659d78e 100644
--- a/maven-plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -13,16 +13,12 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>surefire</groupId>
       <artifactId>surefire</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
-      <type>jar</type>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
+      <version>1.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>surefire</groupId>
       <artifactId>surefire-booter</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
-      <type>jar</type>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
+      <version>1.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>