Could somebody help me in <https://stackoverflow.com/q/61389146/11377112>. In short i have a depende...

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[Animesh Sahu]

Could somebody help me in https://stackoverflow.com/q/61389146/11377112. In short i have a dependency which specifies kotlin plugin as: id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm' version 1.+ and it fetches 1.4-M1, and that version of kotlin-stdlib-jdk8 dependency is not available, it errors:

Could not find org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.4-M1.

Possible solution:
 - Declare repository providing the artifact, see the documentation at <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/declaring_repositories.html>

[araqnid]

You can exclude the transitive dependency: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_downgrade_and_exclude.html#sec:excluding-transitive-deps

[Animesh Sahu]

@araqnid thanks i solved it myself, like this:

implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8") {
        version {
            strictly "1.3.72"
        }
        because "1.4-M1 is not released"
    }

[ilya.gorbunov]

Perhaps it would be better to find out who causes your Kotlin plugin dependency to be 1.4-M1.
Note that the code compiled the pre-release compiler (e.g. 1.4-M1) cannot be used later with the stable compiler (e.g. 1.4 or 1.3.72).