diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 20ab8bc7fe..8d8023221b 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -384,13 +384,6 @@ task updateVersion {
     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
-                // No BWC tests in this major release
-            }
-        }
         ant.replaceregexp(file:'build.gradle', match: '"opensearch.version", "\\d.*"', replace: '"opensearch.version", "' + newVersion.tokenize('-')[0] + '-SNAPSHOT"', flags:'g', byline:true)
     }
 }