Upgrading auto-value from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 in a Kotlin 1.6 project results in:

[ERROR] /path/to/.m2/repository/com/google/auto/value/auto-value/1.10.2/auto-value-1.10.2.jar!/META-INF/kotlin-stdlib-common.kotlin_module: (-1, -1) Module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. The binary version of its metadata is 1.8.0, expected version is 1.6.0.

The auto-value 1.10.2 release notes don't mention any Kotlin compatibility changes, but compared to version 1.10.1 compatibility with Kotlin 1.6 and 1.7 was broken.

• auto-value 1.10.1 uses kotlinx-metadata-jvm 0.5.0, which uses kotlin-stdlib 1.7.0
• auto-value 1.10.2 uses kotlinx-metadata-jvm 0.6.2, which uses kotlin-stdlib 1.8.0
• auto-value HEAD-SNAPSHOT uses kotlinx-metadata-jvm 0.7.0, which uses kotlin-stdlib 1.9.0

Was compatibility with older Kotlin versions broken intentionally or accidentally?