MAVEN, json-simple 1.1.1 depends on Junit

What steps will reproduce the problem?
On central maven repo, 
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.googlecode.json-simple/json-simple/1.1.1 
json-simple pom reference junit in its dependencies.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
junit deps should be in test scope

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.1.1

Please provide any additional information below.
json-simple comes with junit wich leads to conflicts in maven projects using 
json-simple

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 23 Sep 2013 at 2:15

[loegering]

I just want to note that this issue has been addressed in my fork (which is fully compatible with this library if you’re using java 7+). You can find more details about it here: https://cliftonlabs.github.io/json-simple/

[gordysc]

Any news on getting this release out?