IntelliJ contains old version of Gradle

Question

I have created Spring Initializr project with Gradle support in my IntelliJ IDEA on my Windows machine. When wizzard finishes I'm getting error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file 'C:\java_test\crudwithvaadin\build.gradle' line: 2

* What went wrong:
An exception occurred applying plugin request [id: 'org.springframework.boot', version: '2.3.4.RELEASE']
> Failed to apply plugin [id 'org.springframework.boot']
   > Spring Boot plugin requires Gradle 5 (5.6.x only) or Gradle 6 (6.3 or later). The current version is Gradle 5.2.1

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

Does it means IntelliJ contains old version of Gradle? How to fix that?

Answer 1

Check what the gradle-wrapper.properties file contains, e.g.:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-bin.zip.

Under Preferences > Build, Execution, Deployment > Gradle you will find the default settings which are probably set to gradle-wrapper.properties. You can change it to specific version of gradle.

Also check How to change the version of the 'default gradle wrapper' in IntelliJ IDEA? and https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/gradle.html#gradle_settings_access