It seems dagger doesn't work with the latest kotlin 1.7 beta

[NikolayMetchev]

I filed a bug with Jetbrains, but I suspect the problem lies with the dagger somewhere.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-52308

[danysantiago]

Looks like Dagger needs to update the kotlin-metadata-jvm library to 0.4.0 which supports reading metadata from Kotlin 1.7, current version is 0.3.0, you might be able to work around the issue by forcing an update on the transitive dep, likely depending on it directly, something like this:

dependencies {
  // Not a processor, but forces Dagger to use newer metadata lib
  kapt "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-metadata-jvm:0.4.2"
}

[NikolayMetchev]

Looks like that is a valid workaround. Thanks @danysantiago