diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+set -x
+
+GIT_RELEASE_BOT_NAME=${GIT_RELEASE_BOT_NAME:?GIT_RELEASE_BOT_NAME must be provided}
+GITHUB_SHA=${GITHUB_SHA:?GITHUB_SHA must be provided}
+GITHUB_REF=${GITHUB_REF:?GITHUB_REF must be provided}
+RELEASE_BRANCH_NAME=${RELEASE_BRANCH_NAME:?RELEASE_BRANCH_NAME must be provided}
+MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO_PATH=${MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO_PATH:?MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO_PATH must be provided}
+MAVEN_REPO_LOCAL=${MAVEN_REPO_LOCAL:?MAVEN_REPO_LOCAL must be provided}
+#MAVEN_ARGS=${MAVEN_ARGS:?MAVEN_ARGS must be provided}
+
+# avoid the release loop by checking if the latest commit is a release commit
+readonly local last_release_commit_hash=$(git log --author="$GIT_RELEASE_BOT_NAME" --pretty=format:"%H" -1)
+echo "Last $GIT_RELEASE_BOT_NAME commit: ${last_release_commit_hash}"
+echo "Current commit: ${GITHUB_SHA}"
+if [[ "${last_release_commit_hash}" = "${GITHUB_SHA}" ]]; then
+     echo "Skipping for $GIT_RELEASE_BOT_NAME commit"
+     exit 0
+fi
+
+# Filter the branch to execute the release on
+readonly local branch=${GITHUB_REF##*/}
+echo "Current branch: ${branch}"
+if [[ -n "$RELEASE_BRANCH_NAME" && ! "${branch}" = "$RELEASE_BRANCH_NAME" ]]; then
+     echo "Skipping for ${branch} branch"
+     exit 0
+fi
+
+# Making sure we are on top of the branch
+echo "Git checkout branch ${GITHUB_REF##*/}"
+git checkout ${GITHUB_REF##*/}
+echo "Git reset hard to ${GITHUB_SHA}"
+git reset --hard ${GITHUB_SHA}
+
+# This script will do a release of the artifact according to http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/
+echo "Setup git user name to '$GIT_RELEASE_BOT_NAME'"
+git config --global user.name "$GIT_RELEASE_BOT_NAME";
+echo "Setup git user email to '$GIT_RELEASE_BOT_EMAIL'"
+git config --global user.email "$GIT_RELEASE_BOT_EMAIL";
+
+# Setup GPG
+echo "Import the GPG key"
+export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
+echo "$GPG_KEY" | base64 -d > private.key
+gpg --batch --import ./private.key
+chmod -R 777 ~/.gnupg/
+ls -ahl ~/.gnupg/
+rm ./private.key
+
+#echo "Override the java home as gitactions is seting up the JAVA_HOME env variable"
+#JAVA_HOME="/usr/local/openjdk-11/"
+# Setup maven local repo
+#if [[ -n "$MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO_PATH" ]]; then
+#     MAVEN_REPO_LOCAL="-Dmaven.repo.local=$MAVEN_LOCAL_REPO_PATH"
+#fi
+
+# Do the release
+echo "Do mvn release:prepare..."
+#mvn $MAVEN_REPO_LOCAL --batch-mode --global-settings release.xml -Dusername=$GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN release:prepare
+mvn --batch-mode --global-settings release.xml -Dusername=$GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN clean release:prepare -DdevelopmentVersion=${NEXT_SNAPSHOT} -DreleaseVersion=${RELEASE_VERSION}
+echo "Do mvn release:perform..."
+#mvn $MAVEN_REPO_LOCAL --batch-mode --global-settings release.xml release:perform
+mvn --batch-mode --global-settings release.xml release:perform
+
diff --git a/release.xml b/release.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
+          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
+
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>ossrh</id>
+      <activation>
+        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+      </activation>
+      <properties>
+       <gpg.executable>gpg</gpg.executable>
+       <!--<gpg.keyname>${env.GPG_KEY_NAME}</gpg.keyname>-->
+       <!--<gpg.passphrase>${env.gpgpass}</gpg.passphrase>-->
+      <gpg.keyname>${env.GITHUB_GPG_KEY_ID}</gpg.keyname>
+      </properties>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
+
+  <servers>
+    <server>
+	    <id>${env.MAVEN_REPO_SERVER_ID}</id>
+      <username>${env.MAVEN_REPO_SERVER_USERNAME}</username>
+      <password>${env.MAVEN_REPO_SERVER_PASSWORD}</password>
+    </server>
+  </servers>
+
+</settings>