Compiled with gradle 4.0 on Linux:

$ /opt/gradle/gradle-4.0/bin/gradle -v

Gradle 4.0

Build time: 2017-06-14 15:11:08 UTC
Revision: 316546a5fcb4e2dfe1d6aa0b73a4e09e8cecb5a5

Groovy: 2.4.11
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.6 compiled on June 29 2015
JVM: 1.8.0_131 (Oracle Corporation 25.131-b11)
OS: Linux 4.4.74-18.20-default amd64

Crash dump from java launcher:

https://hastebin.com/ekeyuqikoc.cs

Feeling a bit stupid now. Building with gradle build instead of gradle jar fixed the issue.