Gradle release plugin

Author: tobi-laa

CONTRIBUTING.adoc

@@ -45,9 +45,13 @@ Releases are automatically built and published to Maven Central once a tag follo
 
 The artifact version should correspond to the aforementioned tag, meaning tags such as `v1.0.0` should only be applied if the artifact version within the project's `build.gradle.kts` is `1.0.0`.
 
-TODO: Gradle Release plugin
+To simplify the release process, this project uses the
+https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/net.researchgate.release[`net.researchgate.release`]
+Gradle plugin.
+
+The following command can be used to release a new version:
 
 [,bash]
 ----
-mvn release:prepare release:clean -B
+gradle release
 ----

build.gradle.kts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ plugins {
     val kotlinVersion = "1.9.22"
     val adarshrTestLoggerVersion = "4.0.0"
     val sonarqubeVersion = "4.4.1.3373"
+    val gradleReleasePluginVersion = "3.0.2"
 
     id("io.spring.dependency-management") version springDependencyManagementVersion
     kotlin("jvm") version kotlinVersion
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ plugins {
     id("org.sonarqube") version sonarqubeVersion
     id("maven-publish")
     id("signing")
+    id("net.researchgate.release") version gradleReleasePluginVersion
 }
 
 group = "io.github.tobi-laa"