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The JVM toolchain is only used for the things that are built, so for compile tasks, tests tasks, code quality tasks, ...

But Gradle is still run with what Gradle is run

As it complains about configuration `:classpath` this is used in some build script classpath and thus needs to be compatible with the Java version used to run Gradle

Got it — so I need to explicitly request for Java 17 on CI.