JCenter to be shut down

[tthiagomartinho]

Starting from May 1, 2021 JCenter will stop working.
I was wondering if there are any plans to move to another repository, such as MavenCenter.

Thanks!

[barnhill]

Is this repo maintained any longer? There hasnt been a commit or release in a year.

[benjamin-bader]

Relinker is maintained but is also basically feature-complete; there's not a lot of call for ongoing development.

[barnhill]

Awesome!! We just need to get it published to MavenCentral I guess :)

[davidschreiber]

At PSPDFKit, we also recommend customers to use ReLinker when integrating our library into their apps. For that, our customers are relying on the public availability of the library. Since jcenter() was a default Maven provider for most Android projects, integration was simple and straight-forward. We would love to see a migration to mavenCentral() which is the second, universally accepted library that doesn't require any additional configuration in most Android projects.

The last update to this repository was about one year ago. Is the project really actively maintained?

[benjamin-bader]

The last update to this repository was about one year ago. Is the project really actively maintained?

Depends on your definition of "actively". As I said above, there really isn't much need for change in this project, so the commit log looks pretty sparse over the past few years. This is the sign of a mature library whose dependencies also don't change much.

We would love to see a migration to mavenCentral()

@philippb @emarc-m who is in charge of publishing stuff these days? You'll want to address this soonish; jcenter will stop accepting updates in a month or two.

[emarc-m]

Hi everyone and @benjamin-bader, thank you for bringing this up to our attention.

It's me and @tomasz-keepsafe who are handling the publishing of Android artifacts.

We'll get to it as soon as possible as you've recommended.

[tthiagomartinho]

Hi everyone and @benjamin-bader, thank you for bringing this up to our attention.

It's me and @tomasz-keepsafe who are handling the publishing of Android artifacts.

We'll get to it as soon as possible as you've recommended.

Thank you for taking care of it @emarc-m !

[barnhill]

Should we create a PR to this lib to handle this?

[emarc-m]

@barnhill I'd be happy to review a PR for integrating MavenCentral publishing to this project. 😄

[benjamin-bader]

The PR is only part the work; you'll have to get set up with a Sonatype account, publish a gpg signing key, and then integrate those credentials with the code. The code itself is pretty simple. I'm happy to help walk you through the process if you need (and haven't done this already), Philipp can give you my contact info.

[barnhill]

I stuck a PR out there which I know wont work unless the credentials are put on the repo itself but it should be pretty straight forward. Along with it there were some dependencies that were WAY out of date like the gradle plugin, and gradle itself. Those are freebies. Enjoy. Ill be glad to have a look at any comments on the PR and make any corrections necessary to facilitate this moving forward.

[emarc-m]

Relinker v1.4.3 is now available in MavenCentral: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/getkeepsafe/relinker/relinker/.

Thank you all for the help!