diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index c4079a4..b6dd888 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ dependencies {
 
 shadowJar {
     configurations = [project.configurations.shadow]
+
+    exclude 'LICENSE'
+    exclude 'README'
+    exclude 'INFO_BIN'
+    exclude 'INFO_SRC'
+    minimize {
+        exclude(dependency('org.xerial:sqlite-jdbc:.*'))
+        exclude(dependency('mysql:mysql-connector-java:.*'))
+    }
     minimize()
 }
 
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 3455712..07c03fe 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ archives_base_name=sqlib
 
 # Dependencies
 # https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/releases
-sqlite_version=3.43.0.0
+sqlite_version=3.44.0.0
 # https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-connector-java
 mysql_version=8.0.33
 # https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-text