Build fails with Nebula NetflixOSS plugin – postRelease task not found

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I tried to build Zuul 3.6.11 following the official instructions, but the build fails immediately when applying the Nebula NetflixOSS plugin.

Environment:

• OS: Debian (Linux)
• Java: OpenJDK 21.0.10
• Gradle: 9.2.1 (also tried with the project’s ./gradlew)
• Source: Zuul 3.6.11 release

Steps to reproduce:

1. Download and extract Zuul 3.6.11
2. Run ./gradlew build

Observed output:

└─$ ./gradlew build
Starting a Gradle Daemon, 2 busy Daemons could not be reused, use --status for details

> Configure project :
Git repository not found at /home/x/zuul-3.6.11 -- nebula-release tasks will not be available. Use the git.root Gradle property to specify a different directory.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/x/zuul-3.6.11/build.gradle' line: 10

* What went wrong:
An exception occurred applying plugin request [id: 'com.netflix.nebula.netflixoss', version: '13.0.0']
> Failed to apply plugin class 'nebula.plugin.netflixossproject.publishing.PublishingPlugin'.
   > Task with name 'postRelease' not found in root project 'zuul'.

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BUILD FAILED in 9s

Expected behavior:
The project should build successfully using the provided Gradle wrapper without requiring manual modification of the build script.

Notes:

• The error seems to come from the Nebula NetflixOSS plugin (13.0.0) which expects a postRelease task that does not exist in the Zuul root project.
• Even when building inside a Git repo, the error persists.
• This makes it impossible to build Zuul 3.6.11 out of the box.

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