Staging version increment 1.x

Signed-off-by: prudhvigodithi <pgodithi@amazon.com>

build.gradle

@@ -688,8 +688,8 @@ tasks.withType(licenseHeaders.class) {
     additionalLicense 'AL   ', 'Apache', 'Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")'
 }
 
-// versionIncrement: Task to auto increment to the next development iteration
-task versionIncrement {
+// updateVersion: Task to auto increment to the next development iteration
+task updateVersion {
     onlyIf { System.getProperty('newVersion') }
     doLast {
         ext.newVersion = System.getProperty('newVersion')
@@ -699,8 +699,8 @@ task versionIncrement {
             fileset(dir: projectDir) {
                 // Include the required files that needs to be updated with new Version
                 include(name: ".github/workflows/CI.yml")
-                include(name: "build.gradle")
             }
         }
+        ant.replaceregexp(file:'build.gradle', match: '"opensearch.version", "\\d.*"', replace: '"opensearch.version", "' + newVersion.tokenize('-')[0] + '-SNAPSHOT"', flags:'g', byline:true)
     }
-} 
+}