How to Publish Artifacts to Maven Central Publishing artifacts to Maven Central with GitHub Actions made easy! by Publishing your first artifact to Maven Central can be as exciting as it can be confusing. We’ll see together how to make your first time as smooth as it should be, while also making sure people can easily contribute to your open source Java libraries. Lastly, we’ll see how to craft a Maven Central-ready CI/CD pipeline via Introduction Uploading your Java code to Maven Central is an important step towards actively contributing to the Java open source community, and it, therefore, mandates you follow a series of quite strict requirements.