Getting Project Version from Maven POM in Jenkins

Question

Is there any way a Jenkins build can be aware of the Maven version number of a project after processing the POM?

I've got some projects where versioning is controlled by Maven, and in a post-build job we'd like to create a Debian package and call some shell scripts. What I need is for the version number that Maven used to be available as a Jenkins environment variable so I can pass it to post-build actions.

To be clear, I'm not needing to know how to get Jenkins to pass a version number to Maven; instead I want Maven to pass a version number to Jenkins!

Answer 1

You can use the ${POM_VERSION} variable, which was introduced with https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-18272