1.0.3 Gradle Kotlin DSL 1.0 Release Notes Gradle Kotlin DSL 1.0 brings Kotlin 1.3.0, performance improvements, script compilation build cache, API/DSL refinements and fixes. In order to benefit from the best user experience, please update IntelliJ IDEA to 2018.3, Android Studio to 3.2 and their Kotlin Plugin to the latest 1.3. Thanks to a great help from the community, the Gradle User Manual now contains samples...

I expected it to update kotlin to 1.3.10

We wanted to ship 1.3.10 but bumped into https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-28203

Ouch. And meantime android projects with AGP 3.3.0-beta04 don't work with Gradle 5.0 either.. It seems 5.0 stable is not being an easy release