Backporting changes for version workflow

[VachaShah]

Description

Backport #2157 #2163 #2572

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[dblock]

Looks like a real bwc failure?

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':distribution:bwc:bugfix:buildBwcLinuxTar'.
> Building 1.3.1 didn't generate expected file /var/CITOOL/workflow/OpenSearch_CI/PR_Checks/Gradle_Check/search/distribution/bwc/bugfix/build/bwc/checkout-1.3/distribution/archives/linux-tar/build/distributions/opensearch-min-1.3.1-SNAPSHOT-linux-x64.tar.gz

[VachaShah]

distribution:bwc:bugfix:buildBwcLinuxTar

Looks like this was resolved in #2679

[VachaShah]

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#1846

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