diff --git a/.github/scripts/release.sh b/.github/scripts/release.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Releases artifactory-java-client to Artifactory (releases repo), JFrog Distribution and Maven
+# Central, then bumps the dev branch to the next development version.
+#
+# Runnable from GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/release.yml) or directly on a developer machine.
+# Expected environment variables:
+#   NEXT_VERSION                        - version to release (e.g. 2.21.0)
+#   NEXT_DEVELOPMENT_VERSION            - next development version to bump to after release (e.g. 2.22.x-SNAPSHOT)
+#   AUDIT_FAIL                          - "true"/"false", fail the build if `jf audit` finds violations (default: false)
+#   IL_AUTOMATION_TOKEN                 - GitHub token used to push commits/tags to origin
+#   ARTIFACTORY_URL                     - Artifactory base URL
+#   ARTIFACTORY_USER                    - Artifactory username
+#   ARTIFACTORY_APIKEY                  - Artifactory API key/password
+#   MVN_CENTRAL_SIGNING_KEY             - base64-encoded GPG signing key for Maven Central artifacts
+#   ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingPassword  - passphrase for the GPG signing key
+#   ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypeUsername - Sonatype (Maven Central) username
+#   ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypePassword - Sonatype (Maven Central) password
+#   JFROG_CLI_BUILD_NAME, JFROG_CLI_BUILD_NUMBER, JFROG_CLI_BUILD_PROJECT
+#                                        - build-info coordinates consumed by `jf rt` commands
+
+# Configure git
+git config user.name "jfrog-ecosystem-integration"
+git config user.email "jfrog-ecosystem-integration@jfrog.com"
+git checkout master
+git remote set-url origin https://${IL_AUTOMATION_TOKEN}@github.com/jfrog/artifactory-client-java.git
+
+# Check required versions
+echo "Checking variables"
+test -n "$NEXT_VERSION" -a "$NEXT_VERSION" != "0.0.0"
+test -n "$NEXT_DEVELOPMENT_VERSION" -a "$NEXT_DEVELOPMENT_VERSION" != "0.0.x-SNAPSHOT"
+
+# Configure JFrog CLI
+jf c rm --quiet
+jf c add internal --url=$ARTIFACTORY_URL --access-token=$ARTIFACTORY_APIKEY
+jf gradlec --use-wrapper --deploy-ivy-desc=false --deploy-maven-desc --uses-plugin --repo-resolve ecosys-maven-remote --repo-deploy ecosys-oss-release-local
+
+# Sync changes with dev
+git merge origin/dev
+
+# Run audit
+# `|| true` ignores SAST scanner infrastructure failures, matching the original pipeline's comment
+# that GLIBC_2.34 was not available on the pipeline node.
+jf audit --fail=${AUDIT_FAIL:-false} || true
+
+# Update version
+sed -i "s/\(currentVersion=\).*\$/\1${NEXT_VERSION}/" gradle.properties
+
+# Commit and tag release
+git commit -am "[artifactory-release] Release version ${NEXT_VERSION} [skipRun]" --allow-empty
+git tag ${NEXT_VERSION}
+git push
+git push --tags
+
+# Build and publish to Artifactory
+export ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingKey=$(echo "${MVN_CENTRAL_SIGNING_KEY}" | base64 -d)
+jf gradle clean aP -x test
+jf rt bag && jf rt bce
+jf rt bp
+
+# Distribute release bundle
+jf ds rbc ecosystem-artifactory-client-java $NEXT_VERSION --spec=./release/specs/prod-rbc-filespec.json --spec-vars="version=$NEXT_VERSION" --sign
+jf ds rbd ecosystem-artifactory-client-java $NEXT_VERSION --site="releases.jfrog.io" --sync
+
+# Publish to Maven Central
+export ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingKey=$(echo "${MVN_CENTRAL_SIGNING_KEY}" | base64 -d)
+./gradlew clean build publishToSonatype closeAndReleaseSonatypeStagingRepository -x test
+
+# Update next development version
+git clean -fd
+git checkout dev -f
+git merge origin/master
+sed -i "s/\(currentVersion=\).*\$/\1${NEXT_DEVELOPMENT_VERSION}/" gradle.properties
+git commit -am "[artifactory-release] Next development version [skipRun]"
+git push
diff --git a/.github/scripts/snapshot.sh b/.github/scripts/snapshot.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Publishes a snapshot build of artifactory-java-client to Artifactory and JFrog Distribution.
+#
+# Runnable from GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/snapshot.yml) or directly on a developer machine.
+# Expected environment variables:
+#   ARTIFACTORY_URL     - Artifactory base URL
+#   ARTIFACTORY_USER    - Artifactory username
+#   ARTIFACTORY_APIKEY  - Artifactory API key/password
+#   RUN_NUMBER           - unique build number, used for build-info and as the distributed release
+#                          bundle version (e.g. the GitHub Actions run number)
+#   JFROG_CLI_BUILD_NAME, JFROG_CLI_BUILD_NUMBER, JFROG_CLI_BUILD_PROJECT
+#                        - build-info coordinates consumed by `jf rt` commands
+
+# Configure JFrog CLI
+jf c rm --quiet
+jf c add internal --url=$ARTIFACTORY_URL --access-token=$ARTIFACTORY_APIKEY
+jf gradlec --use-wrapper --deploy-ivy-desc=false --deploy-maven-desc --uses-plugin --repo-resolve ecosys-maven-remote --repo-deploy ecosys-oss-snapshot-local
+
+# Run audit
+jf audit
+
+# Delete former snapshots
+# Ensures the release bundle will not contain stale artifacts from a previous snapshot.
+jf rt del "ecosys-oss-snapshot-local/org/jfrog/artifactory/client/artifactory-java-client-api/*" --quiet
+jf rt del "ecosys-oss-snapshot-local/org/jfrog/artifactory/client/artifactory-java-client-services/*" --quiet
+jf rt del "ecosys-oss-snapshot-local/org/jfrog/artifactory/client/artifactory-java-client-httpClient/*" --quiet
+
+# Run install and publish
+jf gradle clean aP -x test
+jf rt bag && jf rt bce
+jf rt bp
+
+# Distribute release bundle
+jf ds rbc ecosystem-artifactory-java-client-snapshot $RUN_NUMBER --spec=./release/specs/dev-rbc-filespec.json --sign
+jf ds rbd ecosystem-artifactory-java-client-snapshot $RUN_NUMBER --site="releases.jfrog.io" --sync
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
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+name: Release
+
+# Manual release of artifactory-java-client to Artifactory (releases repo), JFrog Distribution and Maven Central.
+# Ported from the JFrog Pipelines `release_java_client` pipeline (release/pipelines.release.yml), now EOL.
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      next_version:
+        description: "Version to release (e.g. 2.21.0)"
+        required: true
+      next_development_version:
+        description: "Next development version to bump to after release (e.g. 2.22.x-SNAPSHOT)"
+        required: true
+      audit_fail:
+        description: "Fail the build if `jf audit` finds violations"
+        required: false
+        default: "false"
+
+env:
+  CI: true
+  JFROG_BUILD_STATUS: PASS
+  JFROG_CLI_BUILD_NAME: ecosystem-artifactory-client-java-release
+  JFROG_CLI_BUILD_NUMBER: ${{ github.run_number }}
+  JFROG_CLI_BUILD_PROJECT: ecosys
+  GRADLE_OPTS: -Dorg.gradle.daemon=false
+  NEXT_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.next_version }}
+  NEXT_DEVELOPMENT_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.next_development_version }}
+  AUDIT_FAIL: ${{ github.event.inputs.audit_fail }}
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: master
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Install Java
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          java-version: "8"
+          distribution: "zulu"
+
+      - name: Setup JFrog CLI
+        uses: jfrog/setup-jfrog-cli@v4
+        # Deliberate behavior change from the original pipeline: the pipeline bootstrapped the CLI via
+        # `curl -fL https://install-cli.jfrog.io | sh`; here we use the official setup action instead.
+
+      # Runs the full release: configures git and the JFrog CLI, syncs with dev, audits, bumps the
+      # version, tags and pushes the release commit, builds and publishes to Artifactory, distributes
+      # the release bundle, publishes to Maven Central, then bumps dev to the next development version.
+      # See .github/scripts/release.sh - the same script can be run locally by exporting the env vars below.
+      - name: Run release
+        env:
+          IL_AUTOMATION_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.IL_AUTOMATION_TOKEN }}
+          ARTIFACTORY_URL: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_URL }}
+          ARTIFACTORY_USER: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_USER }}
+          ARTIFACTORY_APIKEY: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_APIKEY }}
+          MVN_CENTRAL_SIGNING_KEY: ${{ secrets.MVN_CENTRAL_SIGNING_KEY }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingPassword: ${{ secrets.MVN_CENTRAL_SIGNING_PASSWORD }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypeUsername: ${{ secrets.MVN_CENTRAL_USER }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypePassword: ${{ secrets.MVN_CENTRAL_PASSWORD }}
+        run: .github/scripts/release.sh
diff --git a/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml b/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml
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+name: Snapshot
+
+# Publishes a snapshot build of artifactory-java-client to Artifactory and JFrog Distribution on every push to dev.
+# Ported from the JFrog Pipelines `create_artifactory_java_client_snapshot` pipeline
+# (release/pipelines.snapshot.yml), now EOL. The pipeline's GitRepo resource (javaClientSnapshotGit,
+# see release/pipelines.resources.yml) tracked the `dev` branch, so that's what triggers this workflow.
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - dev
+  workflow_dispatch: {}
+
+env:
+  CI: true
+  JFROG_BUILD_STATUS: PASS
+  JFROG_CLI_BUILD_NAME: ecosystem-artifactory-client-java-dev
+  JFROG_CLI_BUILD_NUMBER: ${{ github.run_number }}
+  JFROG_CLI_BUILD_PROJECT: ecosys
+  GRADLE_OPTS: -Dorg.gradle.daemon=false
+
+jobs:
+  snapshot:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: dev
+
+      - name: Install Java
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          java-version: "8"
+          distribution: "zulu"
+
+      - name: Cache Gradle files
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: .gradle
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-gradle-${{ github.run_id }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-gradle-
+
+      - name: Setup JFrog CLI
+        uses: jfrog/setup-jfrog-cli@v4
+        # Deliberate behavior change from the original pipeline: the pipeline bootstrapped the CLI via
+        # `curl -fL https://install-cli.jfrog.io | sh`; here we use the official setup action instead.
+
+      # Configures the JFrog CLI, audits, deletes stale snapshot artifacts, builds and publishes to
+      # Artifactory, then distributes the release bundle.
+      # See .github/scripts/snapshot.sh - the same script can be run locally by exporting the env vars below.
+      - name: Run snapshot
+        env:
+          ARTIFACTORY_URL: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_URL }}
+          ARTIFACTORY_USER: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_USER }}
+          ARTIFACTORY_APIKEY: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_APIKEY }}
+          RUN_NUMBER: ${{ github.run_number }}
+        run: .github/scripts/snapshot.sh