Gradle created a preVerifyRelease task

gradle/published-java-module.gradle

@@ -232,6 +232,12 @@ task ciBuild {
 }
 
 tasks.release.dependsOn tasks.test, tasks.publishToSonatype
+
+tasks.preVerifyRelease.dependsOn build
+tasks.preVerifyRelease.dependsOn generateMetadataFileForPublishedArtifactsPublication
+tasks.preVerifyRelease.dependsOn generatePomFileForPublishedArtifactsPublication
+tasks.preVerifyRelease.dependsOn generatePomFileForRelocationPomPublication
+
 tasks.publishToSonatype.mustRunAfter test
 
 

gradle/releasable.gradle

@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ task release {
     mustRunAfter ':release:releaseChecks'
     enabled !project.ormVersion.isSnapshot
 }
+
+task preVerifyRelease {
+    dependsOn ':release:preVerifyRelease'
+}

release/jenkins-release-process.adoc

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ First, a list of resources you will need access to in order to perform a release
 
 == Steps
 
-1. Perform `./gradlew clean build` locally (after pulling all upstream changes).  The Jenkins job does only the release steps, and we need to make sure tests and checkstyle especially are ok
+1. Perform `./gradlew preVerifyRelease` locally (after pulling all upstream changes).  The Jenkins job does only the release steps, and we need to make sure tests and checkstyle especially are ok
 2. Mark the version as released in Jira
 3. Close all issues associated with the version as closed.  Be sure to remove the version from any issues that are not resolved (e.g. rejected) - the Jira "release notes" mechanism includes all issues with that version as the fix-for regardless of the resolution
 4. Start the https://ci.hibernate.org/view/ORM/job/hibernate-orm-release/[Jenkins job].  It is a parameterized build - Jenkins will prompt user for needed information:

release/release.gradle

@@ -349,6 +349,15 @@ task releaseChecks {
     description 'Checks and preparation for release'
 }
 
+task preVerifyRelease{
+    group 'Release'
+    description 'Pre-verifies a release job execution (Run locally before a CI release)'
+
+    dependsOn clean
+    dependsOn assembleDocumentation
+}
+
+
 task changeLogFile {
     group 'Release'
     description 'Updates the changelog.txt file based on the change-log report from Jira'