major_version=$(echo "$parent_latest_released_tag" | $SED -E 's/^([0-9]*)\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$/\1/')
minor_version=$(echo "$parent_latest_released_tag" | $SED -E 's/^[0-9]*\.([0-9]*)\.[0-9]*$/\1/')
patch_version=$(echo "$parent_latest_released_tag" | $SED -E 's/^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.([0-9]*)$/\1/')
major_version=$(echo "$parent_latest_released_tag" | $SED -E 's/^([0-9]*)\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$/\1/')
minor_version=$(echo "$parent_latest_released_tag" | $SED -E 's/^[0-9]*\.([0-9]*)\.[0-9]*$/\1/')
patch_version=$(echo "$parent_latest_released_tag" | $SED -E 's/^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.([0-9]*)$/\1/')
new_snapshot_tag="$major_version"."$minor_version"."$new_patch_version"-SNAPSHOT
echo updating policy parent reference to "$new_snapshot_tag" on "$repo_location/$target_repo" . . .
new_snapshot_tag="$major_version"."$minor_version"."$new_patch_version"-SNAPSHOT
echo updating policy parent reference to "$new_snapshot_tag" on "$repo_location/$target_repo" . . .