Searching GitHub people are using a combination of Strategies like this:

release {
    grgit = new OpenOp(dir: '.').call()

    versionStrategy Strategies.FINAL
    versionStrategy Strategies.PRE_RELEASE
    defaultVersionStrategy Strategies.DEVELOPMENT
}

With: gradlew build
the jar produced has a developer formatted version as expected by the default versing strategy.

With:./gradlew release -Prelease.scope=major -Prelease.stage=final
the error message "Stage final is not one of [dev] allowed for strategy development." is presented.

How can these Strategies work together?