The artifactory plugin 2.8.1 with Jenkins 2.7.4 fails to create a tag if the 'VCS tags name/base URL' field contains a jenkins global variable.
The error can be replicated using a maven job.

This results in the following error upon release during tag creation:

Failure in post build SCM action: Subversion tag creation failed: svn: E125002: Malformed URL '${REPOSITORY_BASE_URL}/foo/branches/foo-1.0.0'
channel stopped

The subversion plugin used to suffer from this but was fixed.

Screenshot of 'VCS tags name/base URL' field configuration:

Any suggestions resolving this will be appreciated other then replacing the variable with the actual value.