I have a very simple question. I have a kotlin multiplatform gradle project. I use VS Code and the c...

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[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

I have a very simple question. I have a kotlin multiplatform gradle project. I use VS Code and the command line to run and build it. When I run ./gradlew --version I get

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Gradle 6.8.1
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Build time:   2021-01-22 13:20:08 UTC
Revision:     31f14a87d93945024ab7a78de84102a3400fa5b2

Kotlin:       1.4.20
Groovy:       2.5.12
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.9 compiled on September 27 2020
JVM:          11.0.10 (JetBrains s.r.o. 11.0.10+0-b96-7249189)
OS:           Mac OS X 12.1 aarch64

Where does the Kotlin version 1.4.20 come from and how to I update that version? I don’t have that version specified anywhere in my project. In fact, I’m using 1.6.20 for kotlin-multiplatform. How do I set Kotlin to the same version? Thanks!

[Joffrey]

It is the Kotlin version used by Gradle itself (to support build.gradle.kts build scripts, written in Kotlin). To update it, update gradle. Latest version is 7.4 at the moment I believe, 6.8.1 is quite old

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Great, thank you!

[Vampire]

But it is anyway totally unrelated to your production code Kotlin version, so you don't really need to care.