Upgrading Android kotlin version to 1.5.0 throwing error message on build

Issue

Running with kotlin version '1.4.32' my Android project runs and builds. Trying to upgrade to kotlin '1.5.0' and my build throws:

Execution failed for task ':app:kaptDefaultsDebugKotlin'.
> A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.internal.KaptWithoutKotlincTask$KaptExecutionWorkAction
   > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException (no error message)

I am not even sure where to start looking. Anyone else have problems upgrading to kotlin 1.5.0?

Solution

This is due to Dagger's use of older version of kotlinx-metadata-jvm. See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-45885

Update your dagger to 2.34

Answered By - Etherbit