diff --git a/.github/workflows/multi-node-test-workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/multi-node-test-workflow.yml
index 5120d8aed..683b992f1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/multi-node-test-workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/multi-node-test-workflow.yml
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout Branch
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Run integration tests with multi node config
-        run: ./gradlew integTest -PnumNodes=3 -Dopensearch.version=2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
+        run: ./gradlew integTest -PnumNodes=3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/security-test-workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/security-test-workflow.yml
index 3c2a47377..f55f14bdd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/security-test-workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/security-test-workflow.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
           java-version: 11
       - name: Build Alerting
         # Only assembling since the full build is governed by other workflows
-        run: ./gradlew assemble -Dopensearch.version=2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
+        run: ./gradlew assemble
       - name: Pull and Run Docker
         run: |
           plugin=`ls alerting/build/distributions/*.zip`
@@ -41,13 +41,21 @@ jobs:
           list_of_all_files=`ls alerting/build/distributions/`
           version=`echo $plugin|awk -F- '{print $3}'| cut -d. -f 1-3`
           plugin_version=`echo $plugin|awk -F- '{print $3}'| cut -d. -f 1-4`
-          candidate_version=`echo $plugin|awk -F- '{print $4}'| cut -d. -f 1-1`
-          echo $version $plugin_version $candidate_version
+          qualifier=`echo $plugin|awk -F- '{print $4}'| cut -d. -f 1-1`
+          candidate_version=`echo $plugin|awk -F- '{print $5}'| cut -d. -f 1-1`
+          docker_version=$version-$qualifier-candidate_version
+
+          if [ -z $candidate_version ]; then
+              candidate_version=$qualifier && qualifier=""
+              docker_version=$version
+          fi
+
+          echo $version $plugin_version $qualifier $candidate_version $docker_version
           echo $ls $list_of_all_files
 
-          if docker pull opensearchstaging/opensearch:$version
+          if docker pull opensearchstaging/opensearch:$docker_version
           then
-            echo "FROM opensearchstaging/opensearch:$version" >> Dockerfile
+            echo "FROM opensearchstaging/opensearch:$docker_version" >> Dockerfile
             echo "RUN if [ -d /usr/share/opensearch/plugins/opensearch-alerting ]; then /usr/share/opensearch/bin/opensearch-plugin remove opensearch-alerting; fi" >> Dockerfile
             echo "ADD alerting/build/distributions/opensearch-alerting-$plugin_version-$candidate_version.zip /tmp/" >> Dockerfile
             echo "RUN /usr/share/opensearch/bin/opensearch-plugin install --batch file:/tmp/opensearch-alerting-$plugin_version-$candidate_version.zip" >> Dockerfile
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/test-workflow.yml
index 657586c12..012c1534a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-workflow.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
       - name: Build and run with Gradle
-        run: ./gradlew build -Dopensearch.version=2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
+        run: ./gradlew build
       - name: Create Artifact Path
         run: |
           mkdir -p alerting-artifacts
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index eef8871ec..87ebd4c6c 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -8,8 +8,17 @@ buildscript {
 
     ext {
         opensearch_version = System.getProperty("opensearch.version", "2.0.0-SNAPSHOT")
-        // 1.0.0 -> 1.0.0.0, and 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0.0.0-SNAPSHOT
-        opensearch_build = opensearch_version.replaceAll(/(\.\d)([^\d]*)$/, '$1.0$2')
+        buildVersionQualifier = System.getProperty("build.version_qualifier")
+        isSnapshot = "true" == System.getProperty("build.snapshot", "true")
+        // 2.0.0-alpha1-SNAPSHOT -> 2.0.0.0-alpha1-SNAPSHOT
+        version_tokens = opensearch_version.tokenize('-')
+        opensearch_build = version_tokens[0] + '.0'
+        if (buildVersionQualifier) {
+            opensearch_build += "-${buildVersionQualifier}"
+        }
+        if (isSnapshot) {
+            opensearch_build += "-SNAPSHOT"
+        }
         common_utils_version = System.getProperty("common_utils.version", opensearch_build)
         kotlin_version = '1.6.10'
     }
@@ -63,16 +72,9 @@ task ktlintFormat(type: JavaExec, group: "formatting") {
 
 check.dependsOn ktlint
 
-ext {
-    isSnapshot = "true" == System.getProperty("build.snapshot", "true")
-}
-
 allprojects {
     group = "org.opensearch"
-    version = "${opensearch_version}" - "-SNAPSHOT" + ".0"
-    if (isSnapshot) {
-        version += "-SNAPSHOT"
-    }
+    version = "${opensearch_build}"
 
     apply from: "$rootDir/build-tools/repositories.gradle"
 
diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index 8a0c6f996..ff5ed4f1f 100755
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ function usage() {
     echo ""
     echo "Arguments:"
     echo -e "-v VERSION\t[Required] OpenSearch version."
+    echo -e "-q QUALIFIER\t[Optional] Build qualifier."
     echo -e "-s SNAPSHOT\t[Optional] Build a snapshot, default is 'false'."
     echo -e "-a ARCHITECTURE\t[Optional] Build architecture, ignored."
     echo -e "-p PLATFORM\t[Optional] Platform, ignored."
@@ -26,6 +27,9 @@ while getopts ":h:v:s:o:p:a:" arg; do
         v)
             VERSION=$OPTARG
             ;;
+        q)
+            QUALIFIER=$OPTARG
+            ;;
         s)
             SNAPSHOT=$OPTARG
             ;;
@@ -56,12 +60,13 @@ if [ -z "$VERSION" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+[[ ! -z "$QUALIFIER" ]] && VERSION=$VERSION-$QUALIFIER
 [[ "$SNAPSHOT" == "true" ]] && VERSION=$VERSION-SNAPSHOT
 [ -z "$OUTPUT" ] && OUTPUT=artifacts
 
 mkdir -p $OUTPUT/plugins
 
-./gradlew assemble --no-daemon --refresh-dependencies -DskipTests=true -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT -x ktlint
+./gradlew assemble --no-daemon --refresh-dependencies -DskipTests=true -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.version_qualifier=$QUALIFIER -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT -x ktlint
 
 zipPath=$(find . -path \*build/distributions/*.zip)
 distributions="$(dirname "${zipPath}")"
@@ -69,8 +74,8 @@ distributions="$(dirname "${zipPath}")"
 echo "COPY ${distributions}/*.zip"
 cp ${distributions}/*.zip ./$OUTPUT/plugins
 
-./gradlew publishShadowPublicationToMavenLocal -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT -x ktlint
-./gradlew publishShadowPublicationToStagingRepository -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT
+./gradlew publishShadowPublicationToMavenLocal -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.version_qualifier=$QUALIFIER -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT -x ktlint
+./gradlew publishShadowPublicationToStagingRepository -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.version_qualifier=$QUALIFIER -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT
 
 mkdir -p $OUTPUT/maven/org/opensearch
 cp -r ./build/local-staging-repo/org/opensearch/notification $OUTPUT/maven/org/opensearch/notification