Error: Unsupported major.minor version 52.

[CraigAnderson8]

Executed: gradle build
Output: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/diffplug/gradle/spotless/SpotlessPlugin : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

gradle.build:

plugins {
id "com.diffplug.gradle.spotless" version "1.3.3"
}

apply plugin: 'com.diffplug.gradle.spotless'
spotless {
java {
eclipseFormatFile 'eclipse-java-google-style.xml' // XML file dumped out by the Eclipse formatter
}
}

Java version: 1.7.0_79

[nedtwigg]

Spotless requires that you run Gradle using Java 8. It can format any version of Java, but it needs to be running on Java 8. See #7 for details.