Cannot find Plugin [id: 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow', version: '5.2.0']

Question

I'm currently trying to create a simple discord bot. I finished the code and I'm trying to export it through shadow--> shadowJar. I keep getting this error message:

Plugin [id: 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow', version: '5.2.0'] was not found in any of the following sources:

Gradle Core Plugins (plugin is not in 'org.gradle' namespace)
Plugin Repositories (could not resolve plugin artifact 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow:com.github.johnrengelman.shadow.gradle.plugin:5.2.0') Searched in the following repositories: Gradle Central Plugin Repository

I've tried to look up how to fix this, being pretty unsuccessful. I'm very new to this, only having experience with simple Java, like multi-dimensional arrays, classes, objects, etc.

Please help!

Here's my build.gradle:

plugins {
    id 'java'
    id 'application'
    id "com.github.johnrengelman.shadow" version "5.2.0"
}

mainClassName = "Main"

group 'com.mywebsite'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'



sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'net.dv8tion:JDA:3.5.0_329'
}

Louis Jacomet Louis Jacomet · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-09T16:38:07

At the time of writing this answer, the shadow plugin's latest version is 2.0.3.

So I have no idea where you sourced that 5.2.0 from but this is the issue: there is no shadow plugin version 5.2.0 out there.

Cannot find Plugin [id: 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow', version: '5.2.0']

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