Version increment task 1.3 (#375)

Signed-off-by: prudhvigodithi <[email protected]>

build.gradle

@@ -69,3 +69,20 @@ ext {
 dependencies {
     implementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
 }
+
+// updateVersion: Task to auto increment to the next development iteration
+task updateVersion {
+    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")
+                include(name: ".github/workflows/CI-workflow.yml")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}