diff --git a/velocity/pom.xml b/velocity/pom.xml
index 9639240d..647f81a0 100644
--- a/velocity/pom.xml
+++ b/velocity/pom.xml
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
                         shading and relocating it causes logger injection to fail-->
                         <excludes>
                             <exclude>org.slf4j:*</exclude>
+                            <exclude>com.google.code.gson:gson</exclude>
                         </excludes>
                     </artifactSet>
                 </configuration>