To use this build from Gradle or Maven, add https://dl.bintray.com/kotlin/kotlin-eap to your repositories. To use the new version of the Kotlin plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, configure Early Access Preview channel in Tools | Kotlin | Configure Kotlin Plugin Updates and press “Check for updates now”.
Not sure what may be wrong, the artifact is there and is working for me. You could try clearing the Gradle cache (erase .gradle directory in the home folder) and try again.
And even if kapt is working is it reliable? My experience with 1.0 is that yes I can get kapt to work (assuming you don’t get the undiagnosable error about NonExistentClass), but it is not reliable in that it is easy to make changes to code that affects the annotation processing and the changes are not rebuilt leading to failed builds or often failures at runtime unless I do a clean build.
A new EAP build 1.0.2-eap-74 is available. In this build, among several other bugfixes, the integration of kapt (Kotlin annotation processing tool) with experimental incremental compilation in Gradle was fixed. If you were affected by this issue, please try the new build out and notify us if the problem is still there.