Gradle build error: Unsupported class file major version 63

[arungupta]

I'm trying to set up Forge on a Windows machine and getting the following error:

C:\Users\Student\Desktop\forge>gradlew genEclipseRuns
To honour the JVM settings for this build a single-use Daemon process will be forked. See https://docs.gradle.org/7.4.2/userguide/gradle_daemon.html#sec:disabling_the_daemon.
Daemon will be stopped at the end of the build

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Settings file 'C:\Users\Student\Desktop\forge\settings.gradle'

* What went wrong:
Could not compile settings file 'C:\Users\Student\Desktop\forge\settings.gradle'.
> startup failed:
  General error during conversion: Unsupported class file major version 63

  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 63
        at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:199)
        at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:180)

Here is the Java version:

C:\Users\Student\Desktop\forge>java -version
java version "19" 2022-09-20
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 19+36-2238)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 19+36-2238, mixed mode, sharing)

Using forge-1.19-41.1.0-mdk.

How can this be fixed?

[warjort]

Use java 17