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If you see the following error when opening a gradle project in IntelliJ, especially 2020.2:

Starting Gradle Daemon...
Gradle Daemon started in 851 ms

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Initialization script 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\sync.studio.tooling2.gradle'

* What went wrong:
Could not compile initialization script 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\sync.studio.tooling2.gradle'.
> startup failed:
  General error during semantic analysis: Unsupported class file major version 61
  
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 61
      at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:196)
      at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:177)
      at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:163)
...
  
  1 error


* Try:
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Exception is:
org.gradle.groovy.scripts.ScriptCompilationException: Could not compile initialization script 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\sync.studio.tooling2.gradle'.
    at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.wrapCompilationFailure(DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.java:199)
    at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.compileScript(DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.java:144)
...
Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
General error during semantic analysis: Unsupported class file major version 61

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 61
    at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:196)
    at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:177)
    at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:163)
...

1 error

    at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.compileScript(DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.java:142)
    ... 154 more


* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 1s

Then

  1. Upgrade to latest IntelliJ, such as 2022.2
  2. In gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties change the version in distributionUrl to 7.4.2
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