yup, true, you do not have to specify

kotlinVersion

for dependencies in this case, I do though, because project I copied this from is a lib, and if I don't the version is not properly resolved on the project which is depending on my lib.

Had the same problem. Actually, I think it’s a bug, probably we should create an issue for Kotlin Gradle Plugin to support such case, not sure that it’s possible to fix without maven publish plugin modification

Yeah, I lazied out on the investigation, just found what was breaking my build, patched it up by specifying version and moved on. I'm not sure if it's a bug, under-designed feature or a misunderstanding 🙂

Same for me, not sure about bug and how hard to fix it, so just use particular version for stdlib in my lib to generate correct pom