butterknife: Build fails with androidX and jetifier enabled

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