Build error when trying to build yo-cordapp release-V4

[seb-droig]

I have followed the pre-requisites and set up Gradle 4.10 and Java 8. I get the following error when running gradle build (can't run gradlew due to silly enterprise restrictions):

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file 'C:\WS\repos\corda-samples-V4\yo-cordapp\build.gradle' line: 63

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'yo-cordapp'.
> Failed to apply plugin [id 'net.corda.plugins.quasar-utils']
   > Could not create an instance of type net.corda.plugins.QuasarExtension_Decorated.
      > No signature of method: org.gradle.api.internal.provider.DefaultPropertyState.convention() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String) values: [co.paralleluniverse]

If I check out branch release-V3 however, I am able to build yo-cordapp successfully. gradle -v gives me:

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Gradle 4.10
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Build time:   2018-08-27 18:35:06 UTC
Revision:     ee3751ed9f2034effc1f0072c2b2ee74b5dce67d

Kotlin DSL:   1.0-rc-3
Kotlin:       1.2.60
Groovy:       2.4.15
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.11 compiled on March 23 2018
JVM:          1.8.0_131 (Oracle Corporation 25.131-b11)
OS:           Windows 10 10.0 amd64

I realize that I am not running on the exact patch level of Java as required, but I don't think it matters at this stage, I am just trying to produce the jar-file, the nodes all have the correct patch level.

[seb-droig]

TL;DR; I managed to find out what was wrong, building the yo-cordapp requires at least Gradle 5.1.

The convention() method is not implemented on the Properties object until 5.1 according to this.