diff --git a/.github/workflows/ossrh-publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/ossrh-publish.yaml
index b2617769a38..0622f678ad4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ossrh-publish.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ossrh-publish.yaml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ name: Publish Athenz packages to Maven Central
 
 on:
   push:
-    tags:
-      - 'v1.12.*'
+    branches:
+      - '1.12.1'
 
 env:
   GOLANG_VERSION: 1.22
diff --git a/actions/scripts/publish.sh b/actions/scripts/publish.sh
index 9bc266c63d9..450f43fd374 100755
--- a/actions/scripts/publish.sh
+++ b/actions/scripts/publish.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ function deployProject ()
     then
       echo "Package $1 already published. Skipping..."
     else
-      until mvn -B deploy -P ossrh -Dmaven.test.skip=true --projects $1
+      until mvn -B deploy -Dmaven.test.skip=true --projects $1 --settings actions/settings/settings-publish.xml
       do
         [[ counter -eq $max_retry ]] && echo "Failed to deploy package $1" && exit 1
         counter=$(( $counter + 1 ))
diff --git a/actions/settings/settings-publish.xml b/actions/settings/settings-publish.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ee8a8fe6504
--- /dev/null
+++ b/actions/settings/settings-publish.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
+    <servers>
+        <server>
+            <id>ossrh</id>
+            <username>${env.OSSRH_USERNAME}</username>
+            <password>${env.OSSRH_TOKEN}</password>
+        </server>
+    </servers>
+</settings>