Why does Gradle force a Kotlin version, and how to fix it? I have a simple Gradle project that includes the following configuration: plugins { kotlin("jvm") } This does different things when running with different gradle versions: $ ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.5 $ ./gradlew --version Kotlin: 1.6.21 $ ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.4.2 $ ./gradlew --version Kotlin: 1.5.31 $ ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.2 $ ./gradlew --version Kotlin: 1.5.21 OK, so Gradle is determining the version of the Kotlin plugin....