How do I get Kotlin to work properly for my 1.3.50...

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[jeggy]

How do I get Kotlin to work properly for my 1.3.50 projects? I do not plan to upgrade some of my projects in the near future. Or should I just ignore this message?

[Joffrey]

Why not upgrade, though? Most of the updates are super smooth

[jeggy]

I have a bunch of small projects lying around which I just do a 3-5 line code changes to every 3-6 months. So not worth to go through them all, and it's all customer paid working hours, so can't just spend time on them as I want 😛

[Joffrey]

My point is, struggling with the IDE to deal with the version issue probably took you longer than a version update of Kotlin in the build file

[Marit van Dijk]

Alternatively, add a bot to create PRs for you with updates? You'll still have to manage the PRs and check everything still works but you won't have to manually check all the projects for updates & create PRs

[igor.wojda]

Configure Renovate with automerge for these projects + simple PR check to determine if upgrade didn't break the project.

Just Add renovate.json (here is my sample) and setup Renovate plugin for repos in renovate dashboard

Very simple and convenient way od keeping dependencies up to date