Spring Boot plugin requires Gradle 4.10 or later. The current version is Gradle 4.1

Question

I have a Spring Gradle project. I'm trying to make a build using gradle build command. But getting below error :

* Where:
Build file 'F:\MyProjectName\build.gradle' line: 2

* What went wrong:
An exception occurred applying plugin request [id: 'org.springframework.boot', version: '2.2.2.RELEASE']
> Failed to apply plugin [id 'org.springframework.boot']
   > Spring Boot plugin requires Gradle 4.10 or later. The current version is Gradle 4.1

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 1s

But I'm already using I'm using gradle-5.6.4. and also tried latest gradle-6.0.1-bin but getting same error.

gradle-wrapper.properties

#Wed Dec 04 12:51:57 IST 2019
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.4-all.zip
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

build.gradle

plugins {
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.2.1.RELEASE'
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.8.RELEASE'
    id 'java'
}

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '1.8'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb-reactive'
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security'
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
    implementation 'io.jsonwebtoken:jjwt:0.9.1'
    implementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-jwt:1.0.7.RELEASE'
    implementation 'org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2:2.4.0.RELEASE'
    implementation 'de.mkammerer:argon2-jvm:2.6'

    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.10'
    annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.10'

    testImplementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') {
        exclude group: 'org.junit.vintage', module: 'junit-vintage-engine'
    }
    testImplementation 'io.projectreactor:reactor-test'
    testImplementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-test'
}

jar {
    enabled true
}

test {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

How to solve this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

1. Open File gradle-wrapper.properties
2. You will find distributionUrl with value something like distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip
3. Change the gradle version to greater than 4.10 , as I have 5.6.2

Note, this will upgrade the locally scoped gradle version. (As opposed to the system wide gradle install) You will have to use the gradlew(rapper) to invoke.

For example (on linux based)

./gradlew build

I am guessing it would be similar on windows

.\gradlew.bat build

You CANNOT use

gradle build

because that will call the machine-scoped version (which will be the old version probably)

Full locally scoped output below:

./gradlew  build

Welcome to Gradle 5.6.2!

Here are the highlights of this release:
 - Incremental Groovy compilation
 - Groovy compile avoidance
 - Test fixtures for Java projects
 - Manage plugin versions via settings script