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https://docs.gradle.org/7.4.2/release-notes.html

Automatic detection of environment variables, system properties and Gradle properties used at configuration time

That should help, unless you're already on 7.4.2

current 7.4.2 and tried 7.5 , but that won't help because the issue is that it's used in configuration time...because mavenPublication requires it to be set in configuration time