Unable to release jakartaee tck staged repo to maven central

Summary

We are unable to release a https://jakarta.oss.sonatype.org/ staging repository.

Steps to reproduce

run https://ci.eclipse.org/jakartaee-tck/job/MavenCentralRelease with a repositoryID of jakartatck-1246

What is the current bug behavior?

[MavenCentralRelease] $ /bin/bash -e /tmp/jenkins16637411783345687270.sh
Releasing repositoryID=jakartatck-1246
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------< org.apache.maven:standalone-pom >-------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] --------------------------------[ pom ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- nexus-staging:1.6.7:rc-release (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO]  + Using server credentials "ossrh" from Maven settings.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  15.431 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2025-07-16T19:22:50Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.sonatype.plugins:nexus-staging-maven-plugin:1.6.7:rc-release (default-cli) on project standalone-pom: Nexus connection problem: Nexus connection problem to URL [https://jakarta.oss.sonatype.org/ ]: 403 - Forbidden -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 

What is the expected correct behavior?

It should be released to central

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

https://ci.eclipse.org/jakartaee-tck/job/MavenCentralRelease/63/console

Priority

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Severity

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Impact

We are unable to release staged artifacts currently