Error with checkstyle.xml, gradle 6.7

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Hello! I am new to using gradle! I opened a project that uses gradle, and there is no config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml. Thus, when I am trying to build the project, the checkstyle.xml is auto-generated, and I get the error in checkstyleMain task… I have tried to edit the xml file, but every time is overwritten. I use gradle 6.7

Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Property 'allowMissingPropertyJavadoc' does not exist, please check the documentation
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.tryCopyProperty(AutomaticBean.java:227)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(AutomaticBean.java:194)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker.setupChild(TreeWalker.java:120)
	... 118 more
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I cannot remember that Gradle generating such a config file for you.
Maybe the build you try to run is generating it, or some 3rd party plugin it applies.
Really hard to guess from the information you provided.

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Firstly, thank you for the response. I delete it and every time is generated again. I have searched in all files, and there is no config for that… However, since it is auto-generated, how does the error explained?

Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: cannot initialize module JavadocMethod - Property 'allowMissingPropertyJavadoc' does not exist, please check the documentation
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker.setupChild(TreeWalker.java:125)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(AutomaticBean.java:201)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:477)
	... 116 more
Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Property 'allowMissingPropertyJavadoc' does not exist, please check the documentation
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.tryCopyProperty(AutomaticBean.java:227)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(AutomaticBean.java:194)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker.setupChild(TreeWalker.java:120)
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That you ask at the wrong place, as it has nothing to do with Gradle but is an error coming from Checkstyle.
But it means that you are using a Checkstyle config that is only compatible with <8.25 with a Checkstyle version 8.25+ as in 8.25 this property was deleted as the functionality was moved to a new check in 8.20.