Exclude LocalDate class for checking by SpotBugs plugin - spotbugs

Question

I'm getting SpotBugs warning with code 'EI_EXPOSE_REP2' for class field
private final LocalDate localDate
I'm trying to exclude this check for java.util.LocalDate class for whole app.
I tried to use annotation #SuppressFBWarnings("EI_EXPOSE_REP2") and it works. But for me this is not good idea of adding this annotation into every place where LocalDate is used. Instead of that I would prefer to add this rule to spotbugs-exclude.xml. And I did so but it's not working (still getting SpotBugs warning). My spotbugs-exclude.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FindBugsFilter>
<Match>
<Class name="java.time.LocalDate" />
<Bug code="EI_EXPOSE_REP2" />
</Match>
</FindBugsFilter>
pom.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
<artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${spotbugs.mavenplugin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>spotbugs-verify</id>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<excludeFilterFile>spotbugs-exclude.xml</excludeFilterFile>
</configuration>
</plugin>
So my question: how could I exclude SpotBugs checking for specific class in whole app?
Additional question: could we mix up spotbugs-exclude.xml and annotations #SuppressFBWarnings inside the same app? Is SpotBugs able to recognize both configurations?

Answer 1

I have done more investigations and found similar topic here: https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs/issues/1601
So looks like for 4.3.0 version SpotBugs plugin has buggy behavior with checking immutable classes and provide warning EI_EXPOSE_REP and EI_EXPOSE_REP2.
So my decision: migrate from 4.3.0 to 4.2.3 - currently all works.