diff --git a/metadata-auth/auth-api/build.gradle b/metadata-auth/auth-api/build.gradle
index cd848ec869..b51f630bea 100644
--- a/metadata-auth/auth-api/build.gradle
+++ b/metadata-auth/auth-api/build.gradle
@@ -10,15 +10,12 @@ apply plugin: 'io.codearte.nexus-staging'
 apply from: '../../metadata-integration/java/versioning.gradle'
 
 
-import org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ReplaceTokens
-
 test {
   useJUnit()
 }
 
 shadowJar {
   zip64 true
-  determineAndSetVersion()
   classifier = null
   archiveName = "$project.name-${version}.jar"
   exclude "META-INF/*.RSA", "META-INF/*.SF","META-INF/*.DSA"
@@ -37,51 +34,6 @@ dependencies() {
   testCompile externalDependency.testng
 }
 
-def determineAndSetVersion() {
-    def detailedVersionString = "0.0.0-unknown-SNAPSHOT"
-    def snapshotVersion = false
-    if (project.hasProperty("releaseVersion")) {
-      version = releaseVersion
-      detailedVersionString = releaseVersion
-    } else {
-      try {
-        // apply this plugin in a try-catch block so that we can handle cases without .git directory
-        apply plugin: "com.palantir.git-version"
-        def details = versionDetails()
-        detailedVersionString = gitVersion()
-        version = details.lastTag
-        version = version.startsWith("v")? version.substring(1): version
-        def suffix = details.isCleanTag? "": "-SNAPSHOT"
-        snapshotVersion = ! details.isCleanTag
-      }
-      catch (Exception e) {
-        e.printStackTrace()
-        // last fall back
-        version = detailedVersionString
-      }
-    }
-  // trim version if it is of size 4 to size 3
-    def versionParts = version.tokenize(".")
-    if (versionParts.size() > 3) {
-      // at-least 4 part version
-      // we check if the 4th part is a .0 in which case we want to create a release
-      if (versionParts[3] != '0') {
-        snapshotVersion = true
-      }
-      versionParts = versionParts[0..2]
-      version = versionParts[0..2].join('.')
-    }
-
-    if (snapshotVersion) {
-      if (versionParts[versionParts.size()-1].isInteger()) {
-        version = versionParts[0..versionParts.size()-2].join('.') + '.' + (versionParts[versionParts.size()-1].toInteger()+1).toString() + "-SNAPSHOT"
-      } else {
-        // we are unable to part the last token as an integer, so we just append SNAPSHOT to this version
-        version = versionParts[0..versionParts.size()-1].join('.') + '-SNAPSHOT'
-      }
-    }
-}
-
 task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
   classifier 'sources'
   from sourceSets.main.allJava