java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE error during gradle artifactoryPublish task

[andreatera]

In our gradle project:

gradle-version: 5.6
artifactory-plugin-version: 4.9.8
war plugin

launching:

./gradlew artifactoryPublish

we got the following exception:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
        at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.<clinit>(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:144)
        at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.getDefaultRegistry(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:109)
        at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.<init>(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:116)
        at org.jfrog.build.client.PreemptiveHttpClient.<init>(PreemptiveHttpClient.java:57)
        at org.jfrog.build.client.ArtifactoryHttpClient.getHttpClient(ArtifactoryHttpClient.java:145)
        at org.jfrog.build.client.ArtifactoryHttpClient.getHttpClient(ArtifactoryHttpClient.java:140)
        at org.jfrog.build.client.ArtifactoryHttpClient.executeGetRequest(ArtifactoryHttpClient.java:184)
        at org.jfrog.build.client.ArtifactoryHttpClient.getVersion(ArtifactoryHttpClient.java:154)
        at org.jfrog.build.extractor.clientConfiguration.client.ArtifactoryBaseClient.getArtifactoryVersion(ArtifactoryBaseClient.java:109)
        at org.jfrog.build.extractor.clientConfiguration.client.ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.tryChecksumDeploy(ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.java:705)
        at org.jfrog.build.extractor.clientConfiguration.client.ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.uploadFile(ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.java:664)
        at org.jfrog.build.extractor.clientConfiguration.client.ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.doDeployArtifact(ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.java:367)
        at org.jfrog.build.extractor.clientConfiguration.client.ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.deployArtifact(ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.java:355)
        at org.jfrog.build.extractor.clientConfiguration.client.ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.deployArtifact(ArtifactoryBuildInfoClient.java:340)
        at org.jfrog.gradle.plugin.artifactory.task.DeployTask.deployArtifacts(DeployTask.java:262)
        at org.jfrog.gradle.plugin.artifactory.task.DeployTask.prepareAndDeploy(DeployTask.java:113)
        at org.jfrog.gradle.plugin.artifactory.task.DeployTask.collectProjectBuildInfo(DeployTask.java:50)
        at org.jfrog.gradle.plugin.artifactory.task.DeployTask.taskAction(DeployTask.java:44)
        at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:103)

[yahavi]

Thanks for reporting this issue, @andreatera!
Can you please check with the latest release, 4.11.0?

[andreatera]

Unfortunately nothing changed, I tried 4.11.0 of the plugin with gradle wrapper 6.0.1