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Is there any chance that patch versions of Kotlin could get released on a faster schedule? I don't mean to trivialize what I'm sure is not a trivial process, but there are many times that a new Kotlin version is released and it works fine. Then something else in the ecosystem (Gradle, AGP, etc...) is released and causes issues with Kotlin (the reverse can happen as well), leading to a choice of Kotlin being out of date, or the other thing being out of date.

It feels like Gradle and AGP are much faster to release patch versions to address these kinds of issues, while Kotlin lags behind and it can sometimes be weeks before a patch is released.

Case in point, <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-70700|this issue> has been going on for a month, and keeps giving me headaches. Could I downgrade all of my projects to Gradle 8.9 to avoid the problem? Theoretically, but I'd have to roll back the changes I made after updating Gradle to 8.10, and I have a lot of repos that I maintain.

Exactly, Gradle has released two patches in less time, and Kotlin still hasn't released a patch (which also has fixes for other bugs I'm experiencing)