Maven dependencies are failing with a 501 error

Question

Recently Maven build jobs running in Jenkins are failing with the below exception saying that they couldn\'t pull dependencies from Maven Central

Answer 1

I was using a clean install of Maven/Java on a Docker container.

For me, I had to cd $M2_HOME/conf and edit the settings.xml file there. Add the following block inside ...

  central-secure
  https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
  central