Build fails with androidX and jetifier enabled #1395

I migrated my project to androidX. Now I get the following error message on building the project:

The given artifact contains a string literal with a package reference 'android.support.v4.content' that cannot be safely rewritten. Libraries using reflection such as annotation processors need to be updated manually to add support for androidx.

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to transform butterknife-compiler-9.0.0-rc1.jar' using Jetifier. Reason: The given artifact contains a string literal with a package reference 'android.support.v4.content' that cannot be safely rewritten. Libraries using reflection such as annotation processors need to be updated manually to add support for androidx.

gradle.properties:

android.useAndroidX=true android.enableJetifier=true

build.gradle (app module)

apply plugin: 'com.android.application' apply plugin: 'kotlin-android' apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt' apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions' compileOptions { sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8 targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8 buildToolsVersion '28.0.3' implementation 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:9.0.0-rc1' kapt 'com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:9.0.0-rc1'

gradle distribution: gradle-4.10.2

I've tried using different versions of the artifacts, still getting the same error