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Gradle fails after kotlin serialization plugin update to 1.7.10
My build.gradle.kts starts as follows:
...
import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile

plugins {
...

kotlin("jvm") //target version is java 11
kotlin("plugin.serialization") version "1.6.21"
}

When I try to update the kotlin serialization plugin to the more recent 1.7.10 version, I get the following compilation error:
A problem occurred configuring project...