Error while compiling release build in Android Studio 3.0 RC2

Add to build.gradle located in app module

configurations {
    all {
        exclude module: 'httpclient'
        exclude module: 'commons-logging'
    }
}

The same error i fixed by this piece of code...

android {
...

configurations {
    all {
        exclude module: 'httpclient'
        exclude module: 'json'
        exclude group: 'org.apache.httpcomponents'
    }
}

...
}

In my case I use this dependency:

compile 'com.github.nkzawa:socket.io-client:0.3.0'

The json is wrong. I changed

implementation('com.github.nkzawa:socket.io-client:0.3.0',{
    exclude group:'org.json',module: 'json'
})

add to app/build.gradle

configurations {
    all {
        exclude module: 'httpclient'
        exclude module: 'commons-logging'
    }
}