If we have a maven project that has the

kotlin-maven-plugin

configured with

<jvmTarget>1.8</jvmTarget>

, should the idea IDEA project's Kotlin Compiler > Target JVM Version be auto-synced (upon re-importing the maven project) to the POM so it is also set to 1.8? Currently its not doing such and remains set to 1.6.

Do you mean jvm target in Project Settings/Kotlin Compiler or in the module facet?

Settings > Kotlin Compiler.

Project-level settings are not affected by import

Just looked, yes I do. I had not realized the JVM target was (also) set there. Thanks.

In Maven/Gradle projects project-level settings are not generally used since all compiler options for each module are imported from external model and stored in the facet

Makes sense. Thanks for the help!