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

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[Jacob Kwitkoski]

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?

[ephemient]

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

[tapchicoma]

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

[tapchicoma]

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

[Jacob Kwitkoski]

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

[aurimas]

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

[ephemient]

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