diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/DistributionDownloadPlugin.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/DistributionDownloadPlugin.java
index 63aedd6566d89..0982fe0267cc5 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/DistributionDownloadPlugin.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/DistributionDownloadPlugin.java
@@ -174,24 +174,21 @@ private void setupRootDownload(Project rootProject, ElasticsearchDistribution di
     }
 
     private static void addIvyRepo(Project project, String name, String url, String group) {
-        project.getRepositories().ivy(ivyRepo -> {
-            ivyRepo.setName(name);
-            ivyRepo.setUrl(url);
-            ivyRepo.metadataSources(IvyArtifactRepository.MetadataSources::artifact);
+        IvyArtifactRepository ivyRepo = project.getRepositories().ivy(repo -> {
+            repo.setName(name);
+            repo.setUrl(url);
+            repo.metadataSources(IvyArtifactRepository.MetadataSources::artifact);
             // this header is not a credential but we hack the capability to send this header to avoid polluting our download stats
-            ivyRepo.credentials(HttpHeaderCredentials.class, creds -> {
+            repo.credentials(HttpHeaderCredentials.class, creds -> {
                 creds.setName("X-Elastic-No-KPI");
                 creds.setValue("1");
             });
-            ivyRepo.getAuthentication().create("header", HttpHeaderAuthentication.class);
-            ivyRepo.patternLayout(layout -> layout.artifact("/downloads/elasticsearch/[module]-[revision](-[classifier]).[ext]"));
-            ivyRepo.content(content -> content.includeGroup(group));
+            repo.getAuthentication().create("header", HttpHeaderAuthentication.class);
+            repo.patternLayout(layout -> layout.artifact("/downloads/elasticsearch/[module]-[revision](-[classifier]).[ext]"));
         });
-        project.getRepositories().all(repo -> {
-            if (repo.getName().equals(name) == false) {
-                // all other repos should ignore the special group name
-                repo.content(content -> content.excludeGroup(group));
-            }
+        project.getRepositories().exclusiveContent(exclusiveContentRepository -> {
+            exclusiveContentRepository.filter(config -> config.includeGroup(group));
+            exclusiveContentRepository.forRepositories(ivyRepo);
         });
     }
 
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/JdkDownloadPlugin.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/JdkDownloadPlugin.java
index 9c48fd8ac1b19..a0fe4eb081137 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/JdkDownloadPlugin.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/gradle/JdkDownloadPlugin.java
@@ -79,16 +79,6 @@ public void apply(Project project) {
                 setupRootJdkDownload(project.getRootProject(), jdk);
             }
         });
-
-        // all other repos should ignore the special jdk artifacts
-        project.getRootProject().getRepositories().all(repo -> {
-            if (repo.getName().startsWith(REPO_NAME_PREFIX) == false) {
-                repo.content(content -> {
-                    content.excludeGroup("adoptopenjdk");
-                    content.excludeGroup("openjdk");
-                });
-            }
-        });
     }
 
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
@@ -145,13 +135,16 @@ private static void setupRootJdkDownload(Project rootProject, Jdk jdk) {
             }
 
             // Define the repository if we haven't already
-            if (rootProject.getRepositories().findByName(repoName) == null) {
-                repositories.ivy(ivyRepo -> {
-                    ivyRepo.setName(repoName);
-                    ivyRepo.setUrl(repoUrl);
-                    ivyRepo.metadataSources(IvyArtifactRepository.MetadataSources::artifact);
-                    ivyRepo.patternLayout(layout -> layout.artifact(artifactPattern));
-                    ivyRepo.content(content -> content.includeGroup(jdk.getVendor()));
+            if (repositories.findByName(repoName) == null) {
+                IvyArtifactRepository ivyRepo = repositories.ivy(repo -> {
+                    repo.setName(repoName);
+                    repo.setUrl(repoUrl);
+                    repo.metadataSources(IvyArtifactRepository.MetadataSources::artifact);
+                    repo.patternLayout(layout -> layout.artifact(artifactPattern));
+                });
+                repositories.exclusiveContent(exclusiveContentRepository -> {
+                    exclusiveContentRepository.filter(config -> config.includeGroup(jdk.getVendor()));
+                    exclusiveContentRepository.forRepositories(ivyRepo);
                 });
             }