Once the release management is enabled, Artifactory release staging link will appear in the left panel (to authorized users).
Clicking on the release staging link will open a new page with configuration options for the release build:
The release staging page displays the release and next development properties configured for the job. The values are read from the gradle.properties file and calculation of the release and next integration version is attempted and displayed in the text fields.
If create VCS tag is checked (default), the plugin will commit/push the poms with the release version to the VCS system with the commit comment. When using Git, if 'Use release branch' is checked, the next release version changes will be done on the branch instead of the currently checkout branch.
The last section lets you change the target repository (the default is the release repository configured in Artifactory publisher) and optional staging comment which will be included in the build info deployed to Artifactory.
Click on the "Build and Release to Artifactory" button to trigger the release build.