fix: release 9.5.0

Co-authored-by: Saikrishna321 <saikrishna321@yahoo.com>

Author: SrinivasanTarget

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 name: Publish package to the Maven Central Repository
 on:
-  release:
-    types: [created]
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - release/mavenCentral
 jobs:
   publish:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.gitignore

@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ classes/
 /.settings
 .classpath
 .project
+.vscode

build.gradle

@@ -9,14 +9,15 @@ plugins {
     id 'signing'
     id 'org.owasp.dependencycheck' version '12.1.3'
     id 'com.gradleup.shadow' version '8.3.7'
+    id 'org.jreleaser' version '1.19.0'
 }
 
 repositories {
     mavenCentral()
 
     if (project.hasProperty("isCI")) {
         maven {
-            url uri('https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/')
+            url uri('https://central.sonatype.com/api/v1/publisher')
             mavenContent {
                 snapshotsOnly()
             }
@@ -160,13 +161,7 @@ publishing {
     }
     repositories {
         maven {
-            credentials {
-                username = System.getenv("MAVEN_USERNAME")
-                password = System.getenv("MAVEN_PASSWORD")
-            }
-            def releasesRepoUrl = "https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/"
-            def snapshotsRepoUrl = "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/'"
-            url = version.endsWith('SNAPSHOT') ? snapshotsRepoUrl : releasesRepoUrl
+            url = layout.buildDirectory.dir('staging-deploy')
         }
     }
 }
@@ -179,6 +174,24 @@ signing {
     sign publishing.publications.mavenJava
 }
 
+jreleaser {
+    signing {
+        active = 'ALWAYS'
+        armored = true
+    }
+    deploy {
+        maven {
+            mavenCentral {
+                sonatype {
+                    active = 'ALWAYS'
+                    url = 'https://central.sonatype.com/api/v1/publisher'
+                    stagingRepository('build/staging-deploy')
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 wrapper {
     gradleVersion = '8.14'
     distributionType = Wrapper.DistributionType.ALL