diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-ort-runtime-ext.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-ort-runtime-ext.yml
index b490b8d4fa7b0..1f28779be51da 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker-ort-runtime-ext.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker-ort-runtime-ext.yml
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Get ORT current version
         run: |
-          ORT_VERSION=$(./gradlew -q properties --property version | sed -nr "s/version: (.+)/\1/p")
+          ORT_VERSION=$(./gradlew -q printSemVersion)
           echo "ORT_VERSION=${ORT_VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Set up Docker build
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-ort-runtime.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-ort-runtime.yml
index 625cdbee4bea3..52b5ffd833be5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker-ort-runtime.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker-ort-runtime.yml
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Get ORT current version
         run: |
-          ORT_VERSION=$(./gradlew -q properties --property version | sed -nr "s/version: (.+)/\1/p")
+          ORT_VERSION=$(./gradlew -q printSemVersion)
           echo "ORT_VERSION=${ORT_VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Set up Docker build
diff --git a/scripts/docker_build.sh b/scripts/docker_build.sh
index 18f8ea9dd89f4..d99bc3f6f3b25 100755
--- a/scripts/docker_build.sh
+++ b/scripts/docker_build.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 set -e -o pipefail
 
 GIT_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
-ORT_VERSION=$("$GIT_ROOT/gradlew" -q properties --property version | sed -nr "s/version: (.+)/\1/p")
+ORT_VERSION=$("$GIT_ROOT/gradlew" -q printSemVersion)
 DOCKER_IMAGE_ROOT="${DOCKER_IMAGE_ROOT:-ghcr.io/oss-review-toolkit}"
 
 echo "Setting ORT_VERSION to $ORT_VERSION."