See issue [1], but in short: latest Java8 on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint family of Linuxes (am on Mint, Ubuntu derivative) contains this patch [3], and eforces Manifest class path entries to be relative, as ...
After updating from OpenSearch version 2.11.1 to 2.12.0 my code now produces the following error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class ...