diff --git a/src/main/java/io/quarkus/develocity/project/normalization/Normalization.java b/src/main/java/io/quarkus/develocity/project/normalization/Normalization.java
index c114cda..f9fb306 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/quarkus/develocity/project/normalization/Normalization.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/quarkus/develocity/project/normalization/Normalization.java
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ public static void configureNormalization(BuildCacheApi buildCacheApi) {
         // Application.properties
         buildCacheApi.registerNormalizationProvider(
                 context -> context.configureRuntimeClasspathNormalization(c -> {
+                    // we are sharing files between JDKs so we need to ignore content that is version-dependent
+                    // the most important element here is Build-Jdk-Spec, the rest is here to allow reusing caches across branches
+                    // or when the maven-jar-plugin is updated
+                    c.configureMetaInf(metaInf -> metaInf.setIgnoredAttributes("Build-Jdk-Spec", "Created-By",
+                            "Specification-Version", "Implementation-Version"));
+
                     c.addIgnoredFiles("META-INF/ide-deps/**");
 
                     if (Matchers.module(context, "quarkus-integration-test-rest-client-reactive")) {