diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 9deaa09cf..4500454ae 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1404,7 +1404,8 @@ under the License.
 				</fileset>
 			</classpath>
 		</taskdef>
-		<findbugs home="${findbugs.home}" output="html" outputFile="build/findbugs.html">
+		<findbugs home="${findbugs.home}" output="html" outputFile="build/findbugs.html"
+			includeFilter="src/resources/devtools/findbugs-filters.xml">
 			<fileset dir="${dist.dir}">
 				<include name="poi-${version.id}-*.jar"/>
 				<include name="poi-scratchpad-${version.id}-*.jar"/>
diff --git a/src/resources/devtools/findbugs-filters.xml b/src/resources/devtools/findbugs-filters.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4b47561d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/resources/devtools/findbugs-filters.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   ====================================================================
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+   ====================================================================
+-->
+<FindBugsFilter>
+<Match>
+<Not><Bug pattern="CN_IMPLEMENTS_CLONE_BUT_NOT_CLONEABLE"/></Not>
+</Match>
+</FindBugsFilter>
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