I’m trying to upgrade com.google.firebase:firebase-bom from version 29.0.0 to 32.6.0 and I ran into this error:

/Users/macuser/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/467bb9d3066a57ac5f94cf19b169a6ba/transformed/jetified-play-services-measurement-api-21.5.0-api.jar!/META-INF/java.com.google.android.gmscore.integ.client.measurement_api_measurement_api.kotlin_module: Module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. The binary version of its metadata is 1.9.0, expected version is 1.6.0.

Does this version have a specific gradle version required?

At the moment, my gradle version is 7.3.3
and kotlin dependencies versions are as below:

org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.6.21
org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:1.6.21

I’ve tried deleting gradle cache and even the .gradle folder itself but nothing seems to work. What could be the issue and how may I solve this? Any input is appreciated. Thanks