Fine tune looking up current version.

.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties

@@ -1 +1 @@
-distributionUrl=https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.5.0/apache-maven-3.5.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.4/apache-maven-3.9.4-bin.zip

Jenkinsfile

@@ -159,12 +159,15 @@ pipeline {
 
 			steps {
 				script {
+
 					docker.image("${p['docker.java.build.image-proxy']}").inside(p['docker.java.inside.basic']) {
 						PROJECT_VERSION = sh(
 								script: "ci/version.sh",
 								returnStdout: true
 						).trim()
 
+						echo "Releasing Spring WS ${PROJECT_VERSION}..."
+
 						if (PROJECT_VERSION.matches(/.*-RC[0-9]+$/) || PROJECT_VERSION.matches(/.*-M[0-9]+$/)) {
 							RELEASE_TYPE = "milestone"
 						} else if (PROJECT_VERSION.endsWith('SNAPSHOT')) {
@@ -175,6 +178,8 @@ pipeline {
 							RELEASE_TYPE = 'snapshot'
 						}
 
+						echo "Release type: ${RELEASE_TYPE}"
+
 						if (RELEASE_TYPE == 'release') {
 
 							STAGING_REPOSITORY_ID = sh(

ci/version.sh

@@ -2,14 +2,9 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
-RAW_VERSION=`MAVEN_OPTS="-Duser.name=jenkins -Duser.home=/tmp/jenkins-home" ./mvnw \
-  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.2.0:evaluate \
-  -Dgradle.cache.local.enabled=false -Dgradle.cache.remote.enabled=false \
-  -Dexpression=project.version -q -DforceStdout`
+VERSION=`MAVEN_OPTS="-Duser.name=jenkins -Duser.home=/tmp/jenkins-home" ./mvnw \
+  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.4.0:evaluate \
+  -Dexpression=project.version -q -DforceStdout | tail -1`
 
-# Split things up
-VERSION_PARTS=($RAW_VERSION)
-
-# Grab the last part, which is the actual version number.
-echo ${VERSION_PARTS[${#VERSION_PARTS[@]}-1]}
+echo $VERSION