Show version number in jenkins job history

Everybody handles versioning in a different way but if your jenkins job sends the version to the output stream you can use the below steps to show such version in the build history. This is handy specially for test jobs as you want to make sure that tests did pass for that specific version.

Let us assume that your job prints something like "Front-End Version: 1.2509". Here is how you print the version number in the jenkins job history:

1. Install "Groovy Postbuild" plugin.
2. Add a post build action type "Groovy postbuild"
3. Insert the below in "Groovy Script" and save

   def m = manager.getLogMatcher("^.*Front-End Version: (.*)\$")
   // to debug using job logs
   // manager.listener.logger.println("found version:" + m.group(1))
   if(m != null && m.matches()) {
     version = m.group(1)
     manager.addShortText(version)
   }
   

4. Run the job and you will get the version number next to the build.