Possibly incorrect quoting logic for system properties passed to gradle cli.

The problem resides in this property format:

-Dproperty=renaming XYZ >> 'xyz'

which the gradle plugin translates it to:

'-Dproperty="renaming XYZ >> 'xyz'"'

In Jenkins parameters:

With the help of a gradle team member - wolfs - he marked the code snippet in the gradle-plugin project that may cause this issue.

I previously opened an issue in the gradle project. You can hace a look on the conversation, as the problem is well demonstrated there.