diff --git a/.github/workflows/automated-release.yml b/.github/workflows/automated-release.yml
index c3b3879..3ddb57c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/automated-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/automated-release.yml
@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ on:
         required: false
         type: boolean
         default: false
+      bump-version-normalize:
+        description: "If true, the version will have full major.minor.patch format, otherwise the final .0 is dropped."
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
       bump-version-pr-lables:
         description: "Labels to apply to the version bump pull request if bump-version is true. For example, 'update-next-dev,skip-qa'."
         required: false
@@ -482,10 +487,25 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
       pull-requests: write
     steps:
+      # Convert the version returned by release-in-jira to the full "major.minor.patch" format
+      # (it drops the patch if it is 0).
+      - name: Normalize Version
+        id: normalize
+        if: ${{ inputs.bump-version-normalize }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          INPUT="${{ needs.release-in-jira.outputs.new-version }}"
+          if [[ $INPUT =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+            OUTPUT="${INPUT}.0"
+          else
+            OUTPUT="$INPUT"
+          fi
+          echo "version=${OUTPUT}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
       - name: Bump version and create PR
         uses: SonarSource/release-github-actions/bump-version@v1
         with:
-          version: ${{ needs.release-in-jira.outputs.new-version }}
+          version: ${{ steps.normalize.outputs.version || needs.release-in-jira.outputs.new-version }}
           pr-labels: ${{ inputs.bump-version-pr-lables }}
           excluded-modules: ${{ inputs.bump-version-exlusions }}
           base-branch: ${{ inputs.branch }}