# Building OSS release version of Elastic Search 6.3.1
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 28, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041 "2018-07-28T17:18:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@nspatil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nspatil)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/1 "2018-07-28T17:18:38Z")
Hi,
I am new to Elastic Search, I am trying to build OSS release version of 6.3.1 from source code. I followed instructions mentioned in readme, downloaded the code from GIT and ran "gradlew assemble" command. Build is successful, but i see zip files created under "C:\ES\elasticsearch-6.3.1\distribution\archives\oss-zip\build\distributions" with name elasticsearch-oss-6.3.1-SNAPSHOT.zip.
I am guessing SNAPSHOT in name indicates its developer build not release? Please help me how i can build OSS release version of Elastic Search 6.3.1 from source code.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/2 "2018-07-28T18:10:43Z")
Why are looking to build instead of [downloading it](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-oss-6-3-1)?
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### Author:  [@nspatil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nspatil)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/3 "2018-07-28T19:24:37Z")
Thanks Christian for responding...as per our internal policy we need to build it from source code rather than downloading.
Meanwhile I tried by running "gradlew build", getting following error, not sure whether i am doing it right way
\< ERROR 0.00s J2 | RejectionActionIT (suite) \<\<\< FAILURES!
> Throwable #1: java.lang.Exception: Suite timeout exceeded (\>= 1200000 msec).
> at \_\_randomizedtesting.SeedInfo.seed([4BFE8F5B4B5A3D73]:0)
> Completed [294/300] on J2 in 1209.14s, 1 test, 2 errors \<\<\< FAILURES!
> Task :server:integTest
> Tests with failures:
- org.elasticsearch.indices.stats.IndexStatsIT.testThrottleStats
- org.elasticsearch.action.RejectionActionIT.testSimulatedSearchRejectionLoad
- org.elasticsearch.action.RejectionActionIT (suite)
Slow Tests Summary:
1209.14s | org.elasticsearch.action.RejectionActionIT
404.98s | org.elasticsearch.indices.stats.IndexStatsIT
309.24s | org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SharedClusterSnapshotRestoreIT
288.17s | org.elasticsearch.search.fetch.subphase.highlight.HighlighterSearchIT
206.36s | org.elasticsearch.search.query.SearchQueryIT
JUnit4 test failed, ant output was:
[junit4] says jolly good day! Master seed: 4BFE8F5B4B5A3D73
[junit4] JVM J1: stderr was not empty, see: C:\ES\elasticsearch-6.3.1\server\build\testrun\integTest\temp\junit4-J1-20180728\_083511\_13613879362498251282678.syserr
[junit4] JVM J0: 1.87 .. 3017.88 = 3016.01s
[junit4] JVM J1: 1.87 .. 2934.86 = 2932.99s
[junit4] JVM J2: 1.87 .. 3553.95 = 3552.07s
[junit4] Execution time total: 59 minutes 14 seconds
[junit4] Tests summary: 300 suites, 2216 tests, 1 suite-level error, 1 error, 1 failure, 80 ignored (23 assumptions)
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
- What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':server:integTest'.
> There were test failures: 300 suites, 2216 tests, 1 suite-level error, 1 error, 1 failure, 80 ignored (23 assumptions) [seed: 4BFE8F5B4B5A3D73] /\>
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### Author:  [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/4 "2018-07-30T17:18:02Z")
In order to build a non-snapshot version, you need to pass `-Dbuild.snapshot=false` to the assemble command.
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### Author:  [@nspatil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nspatil)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/5 "2018-07-31T02:32:21Z")
Thanks Ryan, that helped.
But i am facing following error while running non snapshot version, Also please let me know is there any documentation available about various other options apart from -Dbuild.snapshot=false, i want to just build OSS version.
\< Configure project :plugins:repository-hdfs
hdfsFixture unsupported, please set HADOOP\_HOME and put HADOOP\_HOME\bin in PATH
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
- Where:
Build file 'C:\ES\elasticsearch-6.3.1\x-pack\plugin\core\build.gradle' line: 68
- What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':x-pack:plugin:core'.
Property license.key must be set for release build /\>
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/6 "2018-07-31T03:28:51Z")
What if you run
```
gradle assemble -Dbuild.snapshot=false
```
Instead?
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### Author:  [@nspatil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nspatil)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/7 "2018-07-31T09:17:05Z")
Hi David, Still getting same error with gradle assemble -Dbuild.snapshot=false
Error:
"What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':x-pack:plugin:core'.
Property license.key must be set for release build"
I am using Gradle 4.7, ES 6.3.1, even tried with Gradle 4.9
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### Author:  [@nspatil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nspatil)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/8 "2018-07-31T17:24:34Z")
Thank you all, this issue is resolved
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/9 "2018-07-31T18:31:17Z")
For the record (and future readers), you need a signing key to build a non-snapshot version.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-oss-release-version-of-elastic-search-6-3-1/142041/10 "2018-08-28T18:31:22Z")
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