Our project uses both Spotbugs and the Changelog plugin.
Using Spotbugs 3.1.12 and the Spotbugs Gradle plugin 1.7.1 or 2.0.0 with the Changelog plugin 1.55-1.57 works fine.
Changelog plugin 1.58, 1.59, and 1.64 each appear to cause the Spotbugs worker thread to exit with an error code.
Unfortunately, the Spotbugs Worker does not return any logging or usable errors, so I am unsure what the root cause could be.