From 4e8e8fc099dd53e21d250435db8f6b6c61c50d40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Jacomb <21194782+timja@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:36:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Reduce size of war by excluding unused BC jar (#27099)

---
 cli/pom.xml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cli/pom.xml b/cli/pom.xml
index 15177ce970..45baf3e598 100644
--- a/cli/pom.xml
+++ b/cli/pom.xml
@@ -157,6 +157,12 @@
                     <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
                     <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
                     <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
+                    <!--
+                      Multi-release variants are dead code in this uber jar: the shaded manifest does not declare
+                      Multi-Release: true and the versioned classes are not relocated, so the JVM can never load
+                      them. BouncyCastle et al. run on their base classes.
+                    -->
+                    <exclude>META-INF/versions/**</exclude>
                   </excludes>
                 </filter>
               </filters>