Encountering ambiguous configuration exception in submodule

I’m sure questions like this are all over the place now that Android Studio 3.0 is out officially. We’re seeing this error when resolving our dependencies.

Could not resolve project :core:base.
Required by:
project :design
> Cannot choose between the following configurations of project :core:base:
- debugApiElements
- debugRuntimeElements
- releaseApiElements
- releaseRuntimeElements
All of them match the consumer attributes:
- Configuration ‘debugApiElements’:
- Found com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr ‘debug’ but wasn’t required.
- Found com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr ‘Aar’ but wasn’t required.
- Found com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.VariantAttr ‘debug’ but wasn’t required.
- Found org.gradle.api.attributes.Usage ‘java-api’ but wasn’t required.
- Configuration ‘debugRuntimeElements’:
- Found com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr ‘debug’ but wasn’t required.
- Found com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr ‘Aar’ but wasn’t required.
- Found com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.VariantAttr ‘debug’ but wasn’t required.
- Found org.gradle.api.attributes.Usage ‘java-runtime’ but wasn’t required.
- Configuration ‘releaseApiElements’:
- Found com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr ‘release’ but wasn’t required.
- Found com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr ‘Aar’ but wasn’t required.
- Found com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.VariantAttr ‘release’ but wasn’t required.
- Found org.gradle.api.attributes.Usage ‘java-api’ but wasn’t required.
- Configuration ‘releaseRuntimeElements’:
- Found com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr ‘release’ but wasn’t required.
- Found com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr ‘Aar’ but wasn’t required.
- Found com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.VariantAttr ‘release’ but wasn’t required.
- Found org.gradle.api.attributes.Usage ‘java-runtime’ but wasn’t required.

I’m not sure if this is the correct forum to ask questions about the Android gradle plugin, if not I apologize. The new plugin suggests that you add “matchingFallbacks” to your build types, which we have in this form: matchingFallbacks = [‘release’, ‘debug’]. Our application has 2 buildTypes, debug and release and the library throwing the errors has one buildType, release.