I hit an issue with 8.7-rc-2 today. I cleaned our cache before running and then hit this issue:

gw clean precommit                                                                                         1 ↵ rene@HoG
Using gradle at '/Users/rene/dev/elastic/elasticsearch/gradlew' to run buildfile '/Users/rene/dev/elastic/elasticsearch/build.gradle':


FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/rene/dev/elastic/elasticsearch/build-tools/build.gradle' line: 13

* What went wrong:
An exception occurred applying plugin request [id: 'elasticsearch.publish']
> java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/rene/.gradle/caches/transforms-4/b456ea0ddc4108a37d1f2281fca6272a/transformed/original/build-conventions.jar

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BUILD FAILED in 10s
4 actionable tasks: 4 up-to-date

I just wanted to make you aware of the problem asap. I will create a proper ticket with how to reproduce it on monday likely.

Can you please share a stacktrace?

I havn't reproduced that after restarting the daemon.