Maven Central publishing
Free publishing and hosting of open source Java/JVM components on the Central Repository (Maven Central), the default artifact repository for the Java ecosystem. Free for ordinary community open source publishing; commercial-natured publishing may be subject to fees or limits.
Eligibility: for the project; Components must declare their distribution license in the POM and meet metadata/GPG/coordinate requirements; requires verified namespace ownership. Published artifacts are immutable.
How to apply: Sign up at central.sonatype.com (Google/GitHub/email), verify a namespace, then publish via the Central Portal or build-tool plugins.
last verified 2026-07-06