After upgrading to following versions mentioned above in environment section, pipeline execution failed with following stacktrace:
2021-02-24 11:46:08.505+0000 [id=36309] WARNING o.j.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL#invokeStep: Error storing the arguments for step: sh
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.actions.ArgumentsActionImpl.replaceSensitiveVariables(ArgumentsActionImpl.java:99)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.actions.ArgumentsActionImpl.sanitizeObjectAndRecordMutation(ArgumentsActionImpl.java:238)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.actions.ArgumentsActionImpl.sanitizeMapAndRecordMutation(ArgumentsActionImpl.java:304)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.actions.ArgumentsActionImpl.<init>(ArgumentsActionImpl.java:76)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeStep(DSL.java:276)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeMethod(DSL.java:193)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.invokeMethod(CpsScript.java:122)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor422.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1213)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1022)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.call(PogoMetaClassSite.java:42)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$1.call(Checker.java:163)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.GroovyInterceptor.onMethodCall(GroovyInterceptor.java:23)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.SandboxInterceptor.onMethodCall(SandboxInterceptor.java:157)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$1.call(Checker.java:161)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:165)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:135)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:135)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:135)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.sandbox.SandboxInvoker.methodCall(SandboxInvoker.java:17)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationGroup.methodCall(ContinuationGroup.java:86)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatchOrArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:113)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:83)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor186.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatchOrArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:107)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:83)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor186.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationGroup.methodCall(ContinuationGroup.java:89)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatchOrArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:113)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:83)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor186.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ConstantBlock.eval(ConstantBlock.java:21)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Next.step(Next.java:83)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable$1.call(Continuable.java:174)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable$1.call(Continuable.java:163)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GroovyCategorySupport$ThreadCategoryInfo.use(GroovyCategorySupport.java:129)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GroovyCategorySupport.use(GroovyCategorySupport.java:268)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable.run0(Continuable.java:163)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.access$001(SandboxContinuable.java:18)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.run0(SandboxContinuable.java:51)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThread.runNextChunk(CpsThread.java:185)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.run(CpsThreadGroup.java:400)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.access$400(CpsThreadGroup.java:96)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:312)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:276)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsVmExecutorService$2.call(CpsVmExecutorService.java:67)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at hudson.remoting.SingleLaneExecutorService$1.run(SingleLaneExecutorService.java:136)
at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$1.run(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:28)
at jenkins.security.ImpersonatingExecutorService$1.run(ImpersonatingExecutorService.java:59)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
 Pipeline example structure:
library changelog: false, identifier: 'lib@test', retriever: modernSCM([
$class: 'GitSCMSource',
remote: 'REDACTED'
]) _

void buildStage(String DOCKER_OS, String STAGE_PARAM) {
sh """
REDACTED
"""
{color:#424242}}

void cleanUpWS() {
sh """
sudo rm -rf ./*
"""
{color:#424242}}

def AWS_STASH_PATH

pipeline {
agent {
label 'docker-32gb'
}
parameters {
string(
defaultValue: 'REDACTED',
description: 'URL for repository',
name: 'GIT_REPO')
string(
defaultValue: '8.0',
description: 'Tag/Branch for repository',
name: 'GIT_BRANCH')
}
options {
skipDefaultCheckout()
disableConcurrentBuilds()
buildDiscarder(logRotator(numToKeepStr: '10', artifactNumToKeepStr: '10'))
timestamps ()
}
stages {
stage('Create source tarball') {
steps {
slackNotify(REDACTED)
cleanUpWS()
buildStage("centos:7", "--get_sources=1")
sh '''
REDACTED
'''
script {
AWS_STASH_PATH = sh(returnStdout: true, script: "cat awsUploadPath").trim()
}
stash includes: 'uploadPath', name: 'uploadPath'
pushArtifactFolder("source_tarball/", AWS_STASH_PATH)
uploadTarballfromAWS("source_tarball/", AWS_STASH_PATH, 'source')
}
}

stage('Sign packages') {
steps {
signRPM()
signDEB()
}
}
stage('Push to public repository') {
steps {
// sync packages
sync2ProdAutoBuild(REPO, COMPONENT)
}
}

}
post {
success {
slackNotify(REDACTED)
deleteDir()
}
failure {
slackNotify(REDACTED)
deleteDir()
}
always {
sh '''
sudo rm -rf ./*
'''
deleteDir()
}
}
{color:#424242}}