4.1 -> 5.0 results in enormous increase in dependencies and WAR file size

Upgrading from v4.1 to 5.0 has resulted in an additional 24MB of dependencies.  This adds significant bulk to our war file and difficult to believe it is correct. 

it looks like the majority of this bloat is from from batik.   Is there a build or version that allows removing all of this without jeopardizing core XLSX generation?

This is the pom being used (Old v4)

	<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
			<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
			<version>4.1.2</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
			<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
			<version>4.1.2</version>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
					<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>

And upgrading to 5 (resulting in addl 24MB of jars!)

	<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
			<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
			<version>5.0.0</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
			<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
			<version>5.0.0</version>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
					<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>