Maven: Spring-Test 2.5.x & JUnit 4

I ran into this weird problem today while setting up an integration-testing module in my maven project: The Surefire-plugin seemed to ignore the JUnit4 annotations.
I found a Maven-Surefire issue (SUREFIRE-448) describing the same problem, but it is marked as irreproducible and proposes no solution.
After looking into the debug information (mvn clean test -X > log.txt), it turns out that Spring-Test has a dependency on JUnit 3.8.1, and this is causing my test classes to run as JUnit3 instead of JUnit4.
To fix this, simply exclude JUnit from the Spring-Test dependency:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
   <version>2.5.6</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
   <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
     <groupId>junit</groupId>
     <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
   </exclusions>
</dependency>