Read Maven POM Version in Jenkins Pipeline

Joe Keen · October 17, 2022

jenkins

Given the need to retrieve the version from the POM in a scripted Jenkins pipeline:

node() {
    stage('Stage') {
        def version = (readFile('pom.xml') =~ '<version>(.+?)</version>')[1][1]
        
        // set build description
        currentBuild.description = "${BRANCH_NAME}, ${version}"
    }
}

Note: use [1][1] if you have a parent POM, otherwise [0][1].