Staging for version increment automation.

build.gradle

@@ -140,6 +140,22 @@ shadowJar {
     classifier = null
 }
 
+// versionIncrement: Task to auto increment to the next development iteration
+task versionIncrement {
+    onlyIf { System.getProperty('newVersion') }
+    doLast {
+        ext.newVersion = System.getProperty('newVersion')
+        println "Setting version to ${newVersion}."
+        // String tokenization to support -SNAPSHOT
+        ant.replaceregexp(match: opensearch_version.tokenize('-')[0], replace: newVersion.tokenize('-')[0], flags:'g', byline:true) {
+            fileset(dir: projectDir) {
+                // Include the required files that needs to be updated with new Version
+                include(name: "build.gradle")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
     classifier = 'sources'
     from sourceSets.main.allJava