This actually means, that Gradle had found some dependency conflict and used default conflict resolution strategy, which is to prefer a newer version of some dependency.
The link from the comment leads to the Gradle official user guide, where is dependency management is described. The most interesting part of it for you is "How dependency resolution works".
For example, you can have a gson-2.6.0
library in your dependencies, but some of your other dependencies need a gson-2.7
and it's loaded as a transitive dependency. This lead to the situation, that you have 2 different versions of the same library within you dependencies and this is called dependency conflict, because Gradle can't add both jars to the classpath at the same time. So it uses default conflict resolution strategy and promotes the declared version from 2.6.0 to the newer one 2.7.