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

Same issue is also occuring for jcenter.

From 13 Jan 2020 onwards, Jcenter is only available at HTTPS.

Projects getting their dependencies using the same will start facing issues. For quick fixes do the following in your build.gradle

instead of

repositories {
jcenter ()
//others
}

use this:

repositories {
jcenter { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com/"}
//others
}