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Hi all, I'm hoping someone with Kotlin/Gradle experience can answer my question.

*Context:* my project is still on Kotlin `1.9.24` due to some internal dependency limitations.

*Question:* If I include a 3rd-party dependency that upgrades `org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib` to `2.0.21` (as can be seen by running `./gradlew :app:dependencies --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath` ) , is that going to cause problems at either compile time or runtime?

<https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-evolution-principles.html#evolving-the-binary-format|https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-evolution-principles.html#evolving-the-binary-format>

`2.0.21` should be fine - Kotlin/JVM compiler supports one major version forward

so with `2.1.0+` version - you will not be able to compile your project

Excellent. Thanks for the link and the clarification on version compatibility!

In general, I would note that if the 3rd party library exposes APIs that use new language features, you might not be able to use those parts of the API

also if you use kotlin.reflect it should be updated to match stdlib