diff --git a/build-conventions/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/conventions/PublishPlugin.java b/build-conventions/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/conventions/PublishPlugin.java
index 0ccb05e722447..1b5dad2f3a3ec 100644
--- a/build-conventions/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/conventions/PublishPlugin.java
+++ b/build-conventions/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/conventions/PublishPlugin.java
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 import groovy.util.Node;
 import nmcp.NmcpPlugin;
 
-import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.ShadowExtension;
 import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.ShadowPlugin;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.gradle.internal.conventions.info.GitInfo;
@@ -173,8 +172,7 @@ private void addNameAndDescriptionToPom(Project project, NamedDomainObjectSet<Ma
     }
 
     private static void configureWithShadowPlugin(Project project, MavenPublication publication) {
-        var shadow = project.getExtensions().getByType(ShadowExtension.class);
-        shadow.component(publication);
+        publication.from(project.getComponents().getByName("shadow"));
         publication.artifact(project.getTasks().named("javadocJar"));
         publication.artifact(project.getTasks().named("sourcesJar"));
     }
diff --git a/build-tools-internal/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/shadow/XmlClassRelocationTransformer.java b/build-tools-internal/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/shadow/XmlClassRelocationTransformer.java
index 57afa7014240b..83af018c0924f 100644
--- a/build-tools-internal/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/shadow/XmlClassRelocationTransformer.java
+++ b/build-tools-internal/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/shadow/XmlClassRelocationTransformer.java
@@ -9,10 +9,9 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.gradle.internal.shadow;
 
-import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.ShadowStats;
 import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.relocation.RelocateClassContext;
 import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.relocation.Relocator;
-import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.transformers.Transformer;
+import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.transformers.ResourceTransformer;
 import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.transformers.TransformerContext;
 
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
@@ -26,7 +25,7 @@
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@
 import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
 
-public class XmlClassRelocationTransformer implements Transformer {
+public class XmlClassRelocationTransformer implements ResourceTransformer {
 
     boolean hasTransformedResource = false;
 
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ public boolean canTransformResource(FileTreeElement element) {
     @Override
     public void transform(TransformerContext context) {
         try {
-            BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(context.getIs());
+            BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(context.getInputStream());
             DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
             DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
             doc = dBuilder.parse(bis);
@@ -66,17 +65,16 @@ public void transform(TransformerContext context) {
                 this.doc = null;
             }
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new RuntimeException("Error parsing xml file in " + context.getIs(), e);
+            throw new RuntimeException("Error parsing xml file in " + context.getInputStream(), e);
         }
     }
 
     private static String getRelocatedClass(String className, TransformerContext context) {
-        List<Relocator> relocators = context.getRelocators();
-        ShadowStats stats = context.getStats();
+        Set<Relocator> relocators = context.getRelocators();
         if (className != null && className.length() > 0 && relocators != null) {
             for (Relocator relocator : relocators) {
                 if (relocator.canRelocateClass(className)) {
-                    RelocateClassContext relocateClassContext = new RelocateClassContext(className, stats);
+                    RelocateClassContext relocateClassContext = new RelocateClassContext(className);
                     return relocator.relocateClass(relocateClassContext);
                 }
             }
@@ -111,8 +109,6 @@ public boolean hasTransformedResource() {
     @Override
     public void modifyOutputStream(ZipOutputStream os, boolean preserveFileTimestamps) {
         ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(resource);
-        entry.setTime(TransformerContext.getEntryTimestamp(preserveFileTimestamps, entry.getTime()));
-
         try {
             // Write the content back to the XML file
             TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
diff --git a/build-tools-internal/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/util/DependenciesUtils.java b/build-tools-internal/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/util/DependenciesUtils.java
index 5d7386e2c2150..7120a5f907ddb 100644
--- a/build-tools-internal/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/util/DependenciesUtils.java
+++ b/build-tools-internal/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/internal/util/DependenciesUtils.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public static FileCollection thirdPartyDependenciesView(Configuration configurat
                         .stream()
                         .filter(dep -> dep instanceof ResolvedDependencyResult)
                         .map(dep -> (ResolvedDependencyResult) dep)
-                        .filter(dep -> dep.getResolvedVariant().getDisplayName() == ShadowBasePlugin.COMPONENT_NAME)
+                        .filter(dep -> dep.getResolvedVariant().getDisplayName() == ShadowBasePlugin.SHADOW)
                         .filter(dep -> dep.getSelected() instanceof ResolvedComponentResult)
                         .map(dep -> dep.getSelected().getId())
                         .collect(Collectors.toSet())
diff --git a/gradle/build.versions.toml b/gradle/build.versions.toml
index 01a64982a1f60..f4f8fd1bca8ea 100644
--- a/gradle/build.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/build.versions.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ mockito-core = "org.mockito:mockito-core:1.9.5"
 nmcp = { group = "com.gradleup.nmcp", name = "nmcp", version.ref="nmcp" }
 nebula-info = "com.netflix.nebula:gradle-info-plugin:11.3.3"
 reflections = "org.reflections:reflections:0.9.12"
-shadow-plugin = "com.gradleup.shadow:shadow-gradle-plugin:8.3.5"
+shadow-plugin = "com.gradleup.shadow:shadow-gradle-plugin:9.0.1"
 snakeyaml = { group = "org.yaml", name = "snakeyaml", version = { strictly = "2.0" } }
 spock-core = { group = "org.spockframework", name="spock-core", version.ref="spock" }
 spock-junit4 = { group = "org.spockframework", name="spock-junit4", version.ref="spock" }
diff --git a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
index e8be371431655..b3413a72885cc 100644
--- a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
+++ b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
@@ -451,6 +451,11 @@
             <sha256 value="81cdeef50567735bda9f6b4aabe0cc0a3f6c04f15569192bc6505393d2612c25" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="com.fasterxml.woodstox" name="woodstox-core" version="7.1.0">
+         <artifact name="woodstox-core-7.1.0.jar">
+            <sha256 value="81266920a1cdc47306a8a2b4726c99ec89b3fbf31c2470e4f5e477d9d857ca9f" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="com.github.docker-java" name="docker-java-api" version="3.3.4">
          <artifact name="docker-java-api-3.3.4.jar">
             <sha256 value="650710c70160c1c651e4586a07e55c5f564436cf1f28d83737265ceb5d67696f" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -918,9 +923,9 @@
             <sha256 value="9c823adc282e96b206956e4a63cb1552bb2bbcec6010bbb6aa9c3d18ecd3f915" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
-      <component group="com.gradleup.shadow" name="shadow-gradle-plugin" version="8.3.5">
-         <artifact name="shadow-gradle-plugin-8.3.5.jar">
-            <sha256 value="54e08dd20a82775e3317a4725a1a5e4ec8b1b1c0f346de702a49d9ed4815b735" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+      <component group="com.gradleup.shadow" name="shadow-gradle-plugin" version="9.0.1">
+         <artifact name="shadow-gradle-plugin-9.0.1.jar">
+            <sha256 value="5d421a5c6f0b436f46f3a73a1672ab28058489f3816ecd980aa17e9670a04f87" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
       <component group="com.h2database" name="h2" version="1.4.197">
@@ -1443,6 +1448,11 @@
             <sha256 value="675f60bd11a82d481736591fe4054c66471fa5463d45616652fd71585792ba87" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="commons-io" name="commons-io" version="2.20.0">
+         <artifact name="commons-io-2.20.0.jar">
+            <sha256 value="df90bba0fe3cb586b7f164e78fe8f8f4da3f2dd5c27fa645f888100ccc25dd72" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="commons-io" name="commons-io" version="2.4">
          <artifact name="commons-io-2.4.jar">
             <sha256 value="cc6a41dc3eaacc9e440a6bd0d2890b20d36b4ee408fe2d67122f328bb6e01581" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -3068,6 +3078,11 @@
             <sha256 value="6e77bb229fc8dcaf09038beeb5e9030b22e9e01b51b458b0183ce669ebcc92ef" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.apache.logging.log4j" name="log4j-api" version="2.25.1">
+         <artifact name="log4j-api-2.25.1.jar">
+            <sha256 value="20b9c77c0a9e54d1063a39e551dcaf98c7d8e7a4994648f84d0b9e14c71f7215" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.apache.logging.log4j" name="log4j-core" version="2.17.1">
          <artifact name="log4j-core-2.17.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="c967f223487980b9364e94a7c7f9a8a01fd3ee7c19bdbf0b0f9f8cb8511f3d41" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -3093,6 +3108,11 @@
             <sha256 value="00bcf388472ca80a687014181763b66d777177f22cbbf179fd60e1b1ac9bc9b0" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.apache.logging.log4j" name="log4j-core" version="2.25.1">
+         <artifact name="log4j-core-2.25.1.jar">
+            <sha256 value="78c232747855464b182f0abf78a99a22c88d4d270ff585343dab55576d7420e2" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.apache.logging.log4j" name="log4j-jcl" version="2.19.0">
          <artifact name="log4j-jcl-2.19.0.jar">
             <sha256 value="47f768ffd66107a66f0c2a19445ab1e42ce6719a7f30f9aa9ef96157c83949fd" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -3228,6 +3248,11 @@
             <sha256 value="0681d876cbcf5a6050514edf70c09652d30134bef0cdeb2db90cc807fc71918a" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.apache.maven" name="maven-api-annotations" version="4.0.0-rc-3">
+         <artifact name="maven-api-annotations-4.0.0-rc-3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="5d3490f72ad3a7e82be88b27629f37c59fd2531bae511c3b13866420d5d862bd" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.apache.maven" name="maven-api-meta" version="4.0.0-alpha-9">
          <artifact name="maven-api-meta-4.0.0-alpha-9.jar">
             <sha256 value="32c4f5cadbab680c34952f9cb570457a1383ccec4c9a57b0392607d7191c6949" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -3238,6 +3263,11 @@
             <sha256 value="29b2628d0f028119715916849c19eed45b32cdc67eb13551798c73afa4aa23d6" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.apache.maven" name="maven-api-xml" version="4.0.0-rc-3">
+         <artifact name="maven-api-xml-4.0.0-rc-3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="f3e3b3642373c69d4c7441d40eba0765e1d744e992b62194452f5ea5451dfdba" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.apache.maven" name="maven-archiver" version="3.5.1">
          <artifact name="maven-archiver-3.5.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="d0674469f8e6fbc866dbc5c955463d7629b7755ac7c87a235b9469d8257d6b8c" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -3308,6 +3338,11 @@
             <sha256 value="2d669935e1069c2e9566f3cc81dd5da80b170ac64d09597f6ef7de2f1ff1b149" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.apache.maven" name="maven-xml" version="4.0.0-rc-3">
+         <artifact name="maven-xml-4.0.0-rc-3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="063c424cb47f75164125d5eea25167b931dd694e34268d50247374e74211dd19" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.apache.maven" name="maven-xml-impl" version="4.0.0-alpha-9">
          <artifact name="maven-xml-impl-4.0.0-alpha-9.jar">
             <sha256 value="26e702b881d57ae4ee88d02c00940ba64063705ee69205ae8958bf839a8b06b1" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -3741,6 +3776,11 @@
             <sha256 value="069e78b537108dc6124a67073fc998264791f6b6499e955a38e72bb3e4fe1adf" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.codehaus.plexus" name="plexus-xml" version="4.1.0">
+         <artifact name="plexus-xml-4.1.0.jar">
+            <sha256 value="86e6a7f07484e8b1f7af66d97d3ba3cb3d692a5461b4b1d0a2b7670cf5748e89" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.codehaus.woodstox" name="stax2-api" version="4.2.1">
          <artifact name="stax2-api-4.2.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="678567e48b51a42c65c699f266539ad3d676d4b1a5b0ad7d89ece8b9d5772579" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -4696,6 +4736,11 @@
             <sha256 value="9a579b54d292ad9be171d4313fd4739c635592c2b5ac3a459bbd1049cddec6a0" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.ow2.asm" name="asm-commons" version="9.8">
+         <artifact name="asm-commons-9.8.jar">
+            <sha256 value="3301a1c1cb4c59fcc5292648dac1d7c5aed4c0f067dfbe88873b8cdfe77404f4" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.ow2.asm" name="asm-tree" version="7.2">
          <artifact name="asm-tree-7.2.jar">
             <sha256 value="c063f5a67fa03cdc9bd79fd1c2ea6816cc4a19473ecdfbd9e9153b408c6f2656" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -4951,6 +4996,11 @@
             <sha256 value="cdda03003fa9551315a4cc3fc163f18495f191b49a8f70a3aae232f049a7fdd0" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.vafer" name="jdependency" version="2.13">
+         <artifact name="jdependency-2.13.jar">
+            <sha256 value="145c60864b236a7b1296550d31a49aa75ad612958138ee0d471b9fcb0bbedd3e" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.vafer" name="jdependency" version="2.7.0">
          <artifact name="jdependency-2.7.0.jar">
             <sha256 value="d63efd5746ff408943a7dd7ef85ae9f09aa7fb63bb2b16911427ce6c45b59fd0" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
diff --git a/test/fixtures/hdfs-fixture/build.gradle b/test/fixtures/hdfs-fixture/build.gradle
index b716659648cf1..4c8e145f19551 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/hdfs-fixture/build.gradle
+++ b/test/fixtures/hdfs-fixture/build.gradle
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ tasks.named("shadowJar").configure {
   relocate("org.apache.hadoop", "fixture.hdfs3.org.apache.hadoop") {
     exclude "org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ClientProtocol"
     exclude "org.apache.hadoop.ipc.StandbyException"
+    exclude "org.apache.hadoop.application-classloader.properties"
   }
   configurations.add(project.configurations.hdfs3)
 }
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ def hdfs2Jar = tasks.register("hdfs2jar", ShadowJar) {
   relocate("org.apache.hadoop", "fixture.hdfs2.org.apache.hadoop") {
     exclude "org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ClientProtocol"
     exclude "org.apache.hadoop.ipc.StandbyException"
+    exclude "org.apache.hadoop.application-classloader.properties"
   }
   archiveClassifier.set("hdfs2")
   from sourceSets.main.output
@@ -173,6 +175,10 @@ tasks.withType(ShadowJar).configureEach {
     exclude(dependency('com.fasterxml.jackson.core:.*:.*'))
   }
 
+  filesMatching("META-INF/services/**") {
+    duplicatesStrategy = DuplicatesStrategy.INCLUDE // Or something else.
+  }
+
   transform(org.elasticsearch.gradle.internal.shadow.XmlClassRelocationTransformer.class) {
     resource = "core-default.xml"
     enabled = true