diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/build/artifactory/ArtifactoryRepository.java b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/build/artifactory/ArtifactoryRepository.java
index 0a985d5c271..12c9b7f8bb6 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/build/artifactory/ArtifactoryRepository.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/build/artifactory/ArtifactoryRepository.java
@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ public final class ArtifactoryRepository {
 
 	private static String determineArtifactoryRepo(Project project) {
 		String version = project.getVersion().toString();
-		String type = version.substring(version.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);
-		if (type.equals("RELEASE")) {
+		int modifierIndex = version.lastIndexOf('-');
+		if (modifierIndex == -1) {
 			return "release";
 		}
+		String type = version.substring(modifierIndex + 1);
 		if (type.startsWith("M") || type.startsWith("RC")) {
 			return "milestone";
 		}
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/build/artifactory/ArtifactoryRepositoryTests.java b/buildSrc/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/build/artifactory/ArtifactoryRepositoryTests.java
index 3216f9e347c..050dcdd349f 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/build/artifactory/ArtifactoryRepositoryTests.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/build/artifactory/ArtifactoryRepositoryTests.java
@@ -32,28 +32,28 @@ public class ArtifactoryRepositoryTests {
 	@Test
 	void whenProjectVersionIsMilestoneThenRepositoryIsMilestone() {
 		Project project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build();
-		project.setVersion("1.2.3.M1");
+		project.setVersion("1.2.3-M1");
 		assertThat(ArtifactoryRepository.forProject(project).getName()).isEqualTo("milestone");
 	}
 
 	@Test
 	void whenProjectVersionIsReleaseCandidateThenRepositoryIsMilestone() {
 		Project project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build();
-		project.setVersion("1.2.3.RC1");
+		project.setVersion("1.2.3-RC1");
 		assertThat(ArtifactoryRepository.forProject(project).getName()).isEqualTo("milestone");
 	}
 
 	@Test
 	void whenProjectVersionIsReleaseThenRepositoryIsRelease() {
 		Project project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build();
-		project.setVersion("1.2.3.RELEASE");
+		project.setVersion("1.2.3");
 		assertThat(ArtifactoryRepository.forProject(project).getName()).isEqualTo("release");
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	void whenProjectVersionIsBuildSnapshotThenRepositoryIsSnapshot() {
+	void whenProjectVersionIsSnapshotThenRepositoryIsSnapshot() {
 		Project project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build();
-		project.setVersion("1.2.3.BUILD-SNAPSHOT");
+		project.setVersion("1.2.3-SNAPSHOT");
 		assertThat(ArtifactoryRepository.forProject(project).getName()).isEqualTo("snapshot");
 	}
 
diff --git a/ci/README.adoc b/ci/README.adoc
index b6c207af4fb..93540cec5d7 100644
--- a/ci/README.adoc
+++ b/ci/README.adoc
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The pipeline can be deployed using the following command:
 
 [source]
 ----
-$ fly -t spring-boot set-pipeline -p spring-boot-2.3.x -c ci/pipeline.yml -l ci/parameters.yml
+$ fly -t spring-boot set-pipeline -p spring-boot-2.4.x -c ci/pipeline.yml -l ci/parameters.yml
 ----
 
 NOTE: This assumes that you have credhub integration configured with the appropriate
diff --git a/ci/images/setup.sh b/ci/images/setup.sh
index 1819c8868c6..a4b6d60f8ee 100755
--- a/ci/images/setup.sh
+++ b/ci/images/setup.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ apt-get update
 apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y ca-certificates net-tools libxml2-utils git curl libudev1 libxml2-utils iptables iproute2 jq
 rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-io/concourse-java-scripts/v0.0.2/concourse-java.sh > /opt/concourse-java.sh
+curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-io/concourse-java-scripts/v0.0.3/concourse-java.sh > /opt/concourse-java.sh
 
 
 ###########################################################
diff --git a/ci/parameters.yml b/ci/parameters.yml
index c9515ba6c14..71bbc03f63b 100644
--- a/ci/parameters.yml
+++ b/ci/parameters.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ github-repo-name: "spring-projects/spring-boot"
 docker-hub-organization: "springci"
 artifactory-server: "https://repo.spring.io"
 branch: "master"
-milestone: "2.3.x"
+milestone: "2.4.x"
 build-name: "spring-boot"
 pipeline-name: "spring-boot"
 concourse-url: "https://ci.spring.io"
diff --git a/ci/pipeline.yml b/ci/pipeline.yml
index 5fb55578997..c54be7cd4ac 100644
--- a/ci/pipeline.yml
+++ b/ci/pipeline.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ resources:
     repository: ((docker-hub-organization))/spring-boot-ci-image
     username: ((docker-hub-username))
     password: ((docker-hub-password))
-    tag: 2.3.x
+    tag: 2.4.x
 - name: spring-boot-jdk11-ci-image
   type: docker-image
   icon: docker
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ resources:
     repository: ((docker-hub-organization))/spring-boot-jdk11-ci-image
     username: ((docker-hub-username))
     password: ((docker-hub-password))
-    tag: 2.3.x
+    tag: 2.4.x
 - name: spring-boot-jdk14-ci-image
   type: docker-image
   icon: docker
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ resources:
     repository: ((docker-hub-organization))/spring-boot-jdk14-ci-image
     username: ((docker-hub-username))
     password: ((docker-hub-password))
-    tag: 2.3.x
+    tag: 2.4.x
 - name: artifactory-repo
   type: artifactory-resource
   icon: package-variant
diff --git a/ci/scripts/generate-release-notes.sh b/ci/scripts/generate-release-notes.sh
index aa84b8dd540..0f12a3bc30a 100755
--- a/ci/scripts/generate-release-notes.sh
+++ b/ci/scripts/generate-release-notes.sh
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ set -e
 version=$( cat version/version )
 
 milestone=${version}
-if [[ $RELEASE_TYPE = "RELEASE" ]]; then
-	milestone=${version%.RELEASE}
-fi
 
 java -jar /github-release-notes-generator.jar \
   --releasenotes.github.username=${GITHUB_USERNAME} \
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 238a9367ec8..6a8280301cf 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version=2.3.1.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
+version=2.4.0-SNAPSHOT
 
 org.gradle.caching=true
 org.gradle.parallel=true