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Cross posting: <https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C67HDJZ2N/p1663595941423569> . Looks like the latest releases were made with JDK 11 and that JVM-only modules forward that as a required JVM version but there's no real reason to require Java11 ?

Any objection to setting
```java.toolchain.languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(8))```
in all the Gradle scripts?

I’m assuming you work with Android, and I’m aware the problem was fixed in the other thread - but out of curiosity: now that Android supports Java 11 with Desugaring, what is holding your project to update your Java version? If compatibility issues, what kind of issues are you facing?

<https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin?utm_source=android-studio-2020-3-1&amp;utm_medium=studio-assistant-stable#java-11|https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin?utm_source=android-studio-2020-3-1&amp;utm_medium=studio-assistant-stable#java-11>

It wasn't an Android project but a large backend projet. I guess ultimately they'll switch to java 11 but they're not there yet