title: Gradle Release Plugin for functionalities like Maven release
body: <p>I am in the process of converting the existing maven project to Gradle for which I want to use alternative for maven release plugin. Mainly the functionality to remove snapshot and autoincrement by 1 once the release is cut.
  I came across to use researchgate gradle-release-plugin but need to identify how can I use to this to achieve maven like functionality described above.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying for the first time and gone through below URL:
  <a href="https://github.com/researchgate/gradle-release" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/researchgate/gradle-release</a></p>