0.17.5 does not work with docker-compose 2.21.0 from docker desktop

With latest version (0.17.5 as of this issue), when using docker-compose v2.18.1, everything works fine. When docker-compose is updated to 2.21.0 (thru docker-desktop), we are getting:

> Task :composeUp FAILED
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':composeUp'.
> docker-compose version 0.0.0 doesn't support --scale option

relevant parts of stack-trace:

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: docker-compose version 0.0.0 doesn't support --scale option
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:77)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at org.gradle.internal.classpath.intercept.CallInterceptorsSet$DecoratingCallSite.access$401(CallInterceptorsSet.java:128)
        at org.gradle.internal.classpath.intercept.CallInterceptorsSet$DecoratingCallSite$4.callOriginal(CallInterceptorsSet.java:180)
        at org.gradle.internal.classpath.intercept.CallInterceptorsSet$1.doIntercept(CallInterceptorsSet.java:54)
        at org.gradle.internal.classpath.intercept.CallInterceptorsSet$DecoratingCallSite.callConstructor(CallInterceptorsSet.java:177)
        at com.avast.gradle.dockercompose.ComposeExecutor.isScaleSupported(ComposeExecutor.groovy:274)
        at com.avast.gradle.dockercompose.ComposeExecutor$isScaleSupported$0.call(Unknown Source)
        at com.avast.gradle.dockercompose.tasks.ComposeUp.up(ComposeUp.groovy:129)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)