diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 5660cb1128d..ec75805b636 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ build_task:
     SONAR_HOST_URL: https://next.sonarqube.com/sonarqube
     #allow deployment of pull request artifacts to repox
     DEPLOY_PULL_REQUEST: true
+    #sign artifacts
+    SIGN_KEY: ENCRYPTED[!cc216dfe592f79db8006f2a591f8f98b40aa2b078e92025623594976fd32f6864c1e6b6ba74b50647f608e2418e6c336!]
+    PGP_PASSPHRASE: ENCRYPTED[!314a8fc344f45e462dd5e8dccd741d7562283a825e78ebca27d4ae9db8e65ce618e7f6aece386b2782a5abe5171467bd!]
   maven_cache:
     folder: ${CIRRUS_WORKING_DIR}/.m2/repository
   build_script:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index be05358dff7..c5d8e8a0272 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ env:
 jobs:
   sonar_release:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: Start release process
+    name: Release
     steps:
-      - name: LT release
-        id: lt_release
+      - name: Release
+        id: sonar_release
         with:
           distribute: true
           publish_to_binaries: true
@@ -23,14 +23,9 @@ jobs:
           slack_channel: lang-js-ts 
         env:
           ARTIFACTORY_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_API_KEY }}
-          BINTRAY_USER: ${{ secrets.BINTRAY_USER }}
-          BINTRAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.BINTRAY_TOKEN }}
           BURGRX_USER: ${{ secrets.BURGRX_USER }}
           BURGRX_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.BURGRX_PASSWORD }}
-          CENTRAL_USER: ${{ secrets.CENTRAL_USER }}
-          CENTRAL_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CENTRAL_PASSWORD }}
           CIRRUS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CIRRUS_TOKEN }}
-          GPG_PASSPHRASE: ${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }}
           PATH_PREFIX: ${{ secrets.BINARIES_PATH_PREFIX }}
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           RELEASE_SSH_USER: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_SSH_USER }}
@@ -44,4 +39,45 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           echo "${{ steps.lt_release.outputs.releasability }}"
           echo "${{ steps.lt_release.outputs.release }}"
-      
+  
+  maven-central-sync:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs:
+      - sonar_release
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup JFrog CLI
+        uses: jfrog/setup-jfrog-cli@v1
+      - name: JFrog config
+        run: jfrog rt config repox --url https://repox.jfrog.io/artifactory/ --apikey $ARTIFACTORY_API_KEY --basic-auth-only
+        env:
+          ARTIFACTORY_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_API_KEY }}
+      - name: Get the version
+        id: get_version
+        run: |
+          IFS=. read major minor patch build <<< "${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}"
+          echo ::set-output name=build::"${build}"
+      - name: Create local repository directory
+        id: local_repo
+        run: echo ::set-output name=dir::"$(mktemp -d repo.XXXXXXXX)"
+      - name: Download Artifacts
+        uses: SonarSource/gh-action_release/download-build@v3
+        with:
+          build-number: ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.build }}
+          local-repo-dir: ${{ steps.local_repo.outputs.dir }}
+      - name: Maven Central Sync
+        id: maven-central-sync
+        continue-on-error: true
+        uses: SonarSource/gh-action_release/maven-central-sync@v3
+        with:
+          local-repo-dir: ${{ steps.local_repo.outputs.dir }}
+        env:
+          OSSRH_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.OSSRH_USERNAME }}
+          OSSRH_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.OSSRH_PASSWORD }}
+      - name: Notify on failure
+        if: ${{ failure() || steps.maven-central-sync.outcome == 'failure' }}
+        uses: 8398a7/action-slack@v3
+        with:
+          status: failure
+          fields: repo,author,eventName
+        env:
+          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BUILD_WEBHOOK }}