In my fairly standard gradle setup, I use the Artifactory plugin to stage builds. The version number is specified and recognized in gradle.properties and that works fine.

However, both the release commit and the "next-development-version" commit are empty and don't have an author. The commits are pushed to GitHub just fine though.

https://github.com/MovingBlocks/SplashScreen/commit/99b82c680504a9434b6277643d356ef005d6bc03

The log file looks fine, too:

:artifactoryPublish
Deploying artifact: http://artifactory.terasology.org/artifactory/libs-release-local/org/terasology/splash-screen/1.0.2/splash-screen-1.0.2.jar
Deploying artifact: http://artifactory.terasology.org/artifactory/libs-release-local/org/terasology/splash-screen/1.0.2/splash-screen-1.0.2.pom
Deploying build descriptor to: http://artifactory.terasology.org/artifactory/api/build
Build successfully deployed. Browse it in Artifactory under http://artifactory.terasology.org/artifactory/webapp/builds/SplashScreen/26/2015-08-23T14:38:43.953-0400/

[RELEASE] Committing release version on branch 'Release-1.0.2'
[RELEASE] Creating tag '1.0.2' with message '[artifactory-release] Release version 1.0.2'
[RELEASE] Pushing branch 'Release-1.0.2' to 'https://github.com/MovingBlocks/SplashScreen.git'
Opening connection
Counting objects
Finding sources
Writing objects
[RELEASE] Pushing tag '1.0.2' to 'https://github.com/MovingBlocks/SplashScreen.git'

Thanks for your time and support