diff --git a/.github/workflows/link-validator.yml b/.github/workflows/link-validator.yml
index 30b9a4f89..e414b0c7c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/link-validator.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/link-validator.yml
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ jobs:
         run: sbt docs/makeSite
 
       - name: Run Link Validator
-        run: cs launch net.runne::site-link-validator:0.2.2 -- scripts/link-validator.conf
+        run: cs launch net.runne::site-link-validator:0.2.5 -- scripts/link-validator.conf
diff --git a/scripts/link-validator.conf b/scripts/link-validator.conf
index 387cb45c1..f4b6c9694 100644
--- a/scripts/link-validator.conf
+++ b/scripts/link-validator.conf
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ site-link-validator {
   ignore-missing-local-files-regex =
     "^api/pekko-connectors/snapshot/org/apache/pekko/stream/connectors/googlecloud/storage/impl/Formats.*"
 
+  ignore-files = [
+    # This file is generated, we can't do much about the invalid links here
+    "license-report.html"
+  ]
+
   ignore-prefixes = [
     # Fails after a number of requests with "403 Forbidden"
     "https://javadoc.io/static/"
@@ -34,53 +39,10 @@ site-link-validator {
     "https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/"
     # Errors in Scaladoc from Google Common header `X-Upload-Content-Type`
     "https://doc.akka.io/api/akka-http/10.2.9/akka/http/impl/util/"
-    # Broken license report links
-    "http://glassfish.java.net/public/CDDL+GPL_1_1.html"
-    "https://glassfish.java.net/public/CDDL+GPL_1_1.html"
-    "http://jackson.codehaus.org"
-    "http://java.net/projects/jms-spec/pages/Home"
-    "http://jaxb.java.net/"
-    "http://jetty.mortbay.org"
-    "http://jta-spec.java.net"
-    "http://propensive.com/"
-    "http://servlet-spec.java.net"
-    "http://websocket-spec.java.net"
-    "https://jaxb.dev.java.net/"
-    "https://jsr311.dev.java.net"
-    "http://lmax-exchange.github.com/disruptor"
   ]
 
   non-https-whitelist = [
-    # license report
-    "http://logback.qos.ch/"
-    "http://www.slf4j.org/"
-    "http://reactivemongo.org"
-    "http://www.thedevpiece.com/"
-    "http://aopalliance.sourceforge.net"
-    "http://asm.ow2.io/"
-    "http://avro.apache.org"
-    "http://beanvalidation.org"
-    "http://checkerframework.org"
-    "http://code.google.com/p/"
-    "http://commons.apache.org/"
-    "http://geode.apache.org"
-    "http://couchbase.com"
-    "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"
-    "http://ehcache.org"
-    "http://fastutil.di.unimi.it/"
-    "http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/"
-    "http://github.com/FasterXML/"
-    "http://github.com/airlift/aircompressor"
-    "http://github.com/google/"
-    "http://github.com/jnr/"
-    "http://github.com/julianhyde/eigenbase-properties"
-    "http://github.com/sbt/junit-interface/"
-    "http://github.com/square/javapoet/"
-    "http://glassfish.java.net/public/CDDL+GPL_1_1.html"
-    "http://hamcrest.org/JavaHamcrest/"
     # generated by @apidoc
     "http://pravega.io/"
-    "http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.13.13/scala/concurrent/Future.html"
-    "http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.13.13/scala/util/Try.html"
   ]
 }