Scope of DRONE_SEMVER variables?

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I’m hoping someone may be able to help please.

I can’t see why the following example gets ${DRONE_TAG} set OK but not ${DRONE_SEMVER}.

For my use case I thought I’d use a “by reference” trigger to limit build execution to tag operations, then pass environment variable ${DRONE_SEMVER_SHORT} as a tag name to plugins/docker, but this always seems to be empty.

Here’s a minimal .drone.yml to illustrate (all build tags except - ${DRONE_SEMVER_SHORT} work):

kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: default

steps:
- name: debug
  image: alpine
  commands:
    - echo "DRONE_SEMVER=${DRONE_SEMVER}"
    - echo "DRONE_SEMVER_SHORT=${DRONE_SEMVER_SHORT}"
    - echo "DRONE_TAG=${DRONE_TAG}"

- name: docker  
  image: plugins/docker
  settings:
    repo: 192.168.16.42:5000/test
    registry: 192.168.16.42:5000
    insecure: true
    dockerfile: test/image_files/Dockerfile
    build_args:
      - from_image=alpine:latest
      - message=test
    tags:
      - latest
      - ${DRONE_BUILD_NUMBER}
      - ${DRONE_TAG}
      - ${DRONE_SEMVER_SHORT}

trigger:
  ref:
    include:
      - refs/tags/**
#      - refs/tags/*+module-a*

In the Drone UI, the “debug” step’s output shows ${DRONE_TAG} is set, but not ${DRONE_SEMVER} or its variants:

1	+ echo "DRONE_SEMVER="
2	DRONE_SEMVER=
3	+ echo "DRONE_SEMVER_SHORT="
4	DRONE_SEMVER_SHORT=
5	+ echo "DRONE_TAG=0.0.9"
6	DRONE_TAG=0.0.9

The reason for the above approach is that I have a multi-module project (GitLab based so I haven’t looked into this plugin-based solution); I may take a look at Starlark though.