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for some reason the error is now
```Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.plugin.statistics.BuildFlowService
	at org.gradle.configurationcache.serialization.DefaultReadContext.readClass(Contexts.kt:285)
	at org.gradle.configurationcache.serialization.codecs.BuildServiceProviderCodec.decode(ProviderCodecs.kt:407)```

Might be a weird one (if upgrade is hard), but what if you downgrade to 7.5 or lower?

Do you have the Kotlin Build Scan reporting enabled? I think this might be related: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59589/Gradle-java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError-com-gradle-scan-plugin-BuildScanExtension-on-1.9.0-RC-when-applying-Enterprise-Plugin-from#focus=Comments-27-7613364.0-0|https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59589/Gradle-java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError-com-[…]xtension-on-1.9.0-RC-when-applying-Enterprise-Plugin-from>

We have a similar issue <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25864> but the root cause is not yet known.