Use maven-central deployer, bump gradle, bump versions

build.gradle.kts

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import org.jreleaser.model.Active
 
 plugins {
     base
-    id("org.jreleaser") version "1.9.0"
+    id("org.jreleaser") version "1.17.0"
 }
 
 val pluginVersion = project.file("VERSION").readText().replace(System.lineSeparator(), "")
@@ -61,13 +61,10 @@ jreleaser {
     // https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/examples/maven/maven-central.html#_gradle
     deploy {
         maven {
-            nexus2 {
+            mavenCentral {
                 create("maven-central") {
                     active = Active.ALWAYS
-                    url = "https://aws.oss.sonatype.org/service/local"
-                    snapshotUrl = "https://aws.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"
-                    closeRepository.set(true)
-                    releaseRepository.set(true)
+                    url = "https://central.sonatype.com/api/v1/publisher"
                     stagingRepositories.add("${rootProject.buildDir}/staging")
                 }
             }

buildSrc/build.gradle.kts

@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ dependencies {
     implementation("com.adarshr:gradle-test-logger-plugin:4.0.0")
 
     // Plugin convention dependencies
-    implementation("com.gradle.publish:plugin-publish-plugin:1.2.1")
+    implementation("com.gradle.publish:plugin-publish-plugin:1.3.1")
 }

buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/smithy-gradle-plugin.plugin-conventions.gradle.kts

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ plugins {
     jacoco
     id("com.adarshr.test-logger")
     id("com.github.spotbugs")
-    signing
 }
 
 /*
@@ -63,23 +62,6 @@ publishing {
     }
 }
 
-signing {
-    setRequired {
-        // signing is required only if the artifacts are to be published to a maven repository
-        gradle.taskGraph.allTasks.any { it is PublishToMavenRepository }
-    }
-
-    // Don't sign the artifacts if we didn't get a key and password to use.
-    if (project.hasProperty("signingKey") && project.hasProperty("signingPassword")) {
-        signing {
-            useInMemoryPgpKeys(
-                project.properties["signingKey"].toString(),
-                project.properties["signingPassword"].toString())
-            sign(publishing.publications)
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 /*
  * Unit tests
  * ====================================================

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.2-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists