diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 8aa9b2f3b..4368bc6c5 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changes from Ant 1.9.0 TO current
 Changes that could break older environments:
 -------------------------------------------
 
+* the optional ant-junit4.jar has been merged into ant-junit.jar
+  as Ant now requires JUnit4.
+
 Fixed bugs:
 -----------
 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2a849a0f2..a5c4d83de 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -186,16 +186,7 @@
   </selector>
 
   <selector id="needs.junit">
-    <and>
-      <filename name="${optional.package}/junit/"/>
-      <not>
-        <filename name="${optional.package}/junit/JUnit4TestMethodAdapter*"/>
-      </not>
-    </and>
-  </selector>
-
-  <selector id="needs.junit4">
-    <filename name="${optional.package}/junit/JUnit4TestMethodAdapter*"/>
+    <filename name="${optional.package}/junit/"/>
   </selector>
 
   <selector id="needs.apache-regexp">
@@ -304,7 +295,6 @@
         <selector refid="needs.jmf"/>
         <selector refid="needs.jsch"/>
         <selector refid="needs.junit"/>
-        <selector refid="needs.junit4"/>
         <selector refid="needs.netrexx"/>
         <selector refid="needs.swing"/>
         <selector refid="ant.launcher"/>
@@ -378,9 +368,6 @@
       classname="org.apache.xalan.trace.TraceListenerEx3"
       classpathref="classpath" ignoresystemclasses="${ignoresystemclasses}"/>
     <available property="junit.present"
-      classname="junit.framework.TestCase"
-      classpathref="classpath" ignoresystemclasses="${ignoresystemclasses}"/>
-    <available property="junit4.present"
       classname="org.junit.Test"
       classpathref="classpath" ignoresystemclasses="${ignoresystemclasses}"/>
     <available property="antunit.present"
@@ -561,8 +548,7 @@
             <selector refid="not.in.kaffe" if="kaffe"/>
 
             <selector refid="needs.apache-resolver" unless="apache.resolver.present"/>
-            <selector refid="needs.junit" unless="junit.present"/> <!-- XXX should perhaps use -source 1.4? -->
-            <selector refid="needs.junit4" unless="junit4.present"/>
+            <selector refid="needs.junit" unless="junit.present"/>
             <selector refid="needs.apache-regexp"
               unless="apache.regexp.present"/>
             <selector refid="needs.apache-oro" unless="apache.oro.present"/>
@@ -735,7 +721,6 @@
 
     <optional-jar dep="apache-resolver"/>
     <optional-jar dep="junit"/>
-    <optional-jar dep="junit4"/>
     <optional-jar dep="apache-regexp"/>
     <optional-jar dep="apache-oro"/>
     <optional-jar dep="apache-bcel"/>
@@ -828,7 +813,6 @@
 
     <optional-src-jar dep="apache-resolver"/>
     <optional-src-jar dep="junit"/>
-    <optional-src-jar dep="junit4"/>
     <optional-src-jar dep="apache-regexp"/>
     <optional-src-jar dep="apache-oro"/>
     <optional-src-jar dep="apache-bcel"/>
diff --git a/src/etc/poms/ant-junit/pom.xml b/src/etc/poms/ant-junit/pom.xml
index c4f1cfc60..21da4cb65 100644
--- a/src/etc/poms/ant-junit/pom.xml
+++ b/src/etc/poms/ant-junit/pom.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/ma
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>3.8.2</version>
+      <version>4.11</version>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
@@ -82,9 +82,6 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/ma
           <includes>
             <include>org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/*</include>
           </includes>
-          <excludes>
-            <exclude>org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/JUnit4TestMethodAdapter*</exclude>
-          </excludes>
           <testIncludes>
             <include>org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/</include>
           </testIncludes>
diff --git a/src/etc/poms/ant-junit4/pom.xml b/src/etc/poms/ant-junit4/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ef817663..000000000
--- a/src/etc/poms/ant-junit4/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
--->
-<!--
-  This POM has been created manually by the Ant Development Team.
-  Please contact us if you are not satisfied with the data contained in this POM.
-  URL : http://ant.apache.org
--->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
-xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
-    <artifactId>ant-parent</artifactId>
-    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.9.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <url>http://ant.apache.org/</url>  
-  <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
-  <artifactId>ant-junit4</artifactId>
-  <version>1.9.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  <name>Apache Ant + JUnit 4</name>
-  <description>contains JUnit 4.x support</description>
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
-      <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
-      <version>1.9.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>4.11</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <includes>
-            <include>org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/JUnit4TestMethodAdapter*</include>
-          </includes>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-    <sourceDirectory>../../../../src/main</sourceDirectory>
-    <testSourceDirectory>../../../../src/testcases</testSourceDirectory>
-    <outputDirectory>../../../../target/${project.artifactId}/classes</outputDirectory>
-    <testOutputDirectory>../../../../target/${project.artifactId}/testcases</testOutputDirectory>
-    <directory>../../../../target/${project.artifactId}</directory>
-  </build>
-</project>
diff --git a/src/etc/poms/pom.xml b/src/etc/poms/pom.xml
index 9df636432..f51b1217c 100644
--- a/src/etc/poms/pom.xml
+++ b/src/etc/poms/pom.xml
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/ma
     <module>ant-jmf</module>
     <module>ant-jsch</module>
     <module>ant-junit</module>
-    <module>ant-junit4</module>
     <module>ant-launcher</module>
     <module>ant-netrexx</module>
     <module>ant-swing</module>
@@ -107,7 +106,7 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/ma
      <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>3.8.2</version>
+      <version>4.11</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>