[@dwijnand]: http://github.com/dwijnand
  [#1877]: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1877
  [#2035]: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/2035

### Fixes with compatibility implications

### Improvements

### Bug fixes

- Add dependency-level exclusions in the POM for project-level exclusions. [#1877][]/[#2035][] by [@dwijnand][]