diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8458c6d10..8787e27d8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Add timeout and throttle to the jenkins workflows ([#231](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/231)) 
 - Updating maintainers, admins and documentation ([#248](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/248))
 - Migrate client transports to Apache HttpClient / Core 5.x ([#246](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/246))
+- Fixing version and build ([#254](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-java/pull/254))
 
 ### Deprecated
 
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index eb9b65f34..6a904264e 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1 +1 @@
-systemProp.version = 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT
\ No newline at end of file
+systemProp.version = 3.0.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/java-client/build.gradle.kts b/java-client/build.gradle.kts
index 489886eb9..d7bbda116 100644
--- a/java-client/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/java-client/build.gradle.kts
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
         maven(url = "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/")
     }
+    dependencies {
+        "classpath"(group = "org.opensearch.gradle", name = "build-tools", version = "3.0.0-SNAPSHOT")
+    }
 }
 
 plugins {
@@ -50,6 +53,7 @@ plugins {
     `maven-publish`
     id("com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report") version "1.19"
 }
+apply(plugin = "opensearch.repositories")
 
 checkstyle {
     toolVersion = "10.0"