Confluent Maven repository is responding HTTP 403 Forbidden

[mertant]

All requests to packages.confluent.io are responding with 403 Forbidden, which prevents building projects depending on Confluent Maven packages.

This is occurring since approximately 14:00 - 14:30 UTC.

curl -I \
    https://packages.confluent.io/maven/io/confluent/kafka-avro-serializer/7.5.1/kafka-avro-serializer-7.5.1.pom \
    https://packages.confluent.io/maven/io/confluent/kafka-schema-registry-client/7.3.0/kafka-schema-registry-client-7.3.0.pom \
    https://packages.confluent.io

HTTP/2 403 
server: CloudFront
date: Mon, 06 May 2024 15:00:29 GMT
content-length: 0
x-cache: Error from cloudfront
[etc.]

[mertant]

It seems that the issue has now been resolved.

curl -I https://packages.confluent.io
HTTP/2 200 
content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8
content-length: 705
date: Mon, 06 May 2024 16:18:10 GMT
[...]

Is there somewhere we can can follow for updates about similar issues in the future? I couldn't find anything like a status tracker or news feed on the website. Is the Confluent Forum the best place to go?

https://forum.confluent.io/t/https-packages-confluent-io-maven-403-forbidden/10635

[mertant]

☝️ I will refer the above question to @davetroiano who handled the issue on the forum. Is there a Maven-specific place to discuss and to report issues? The forum thread was posted under "Clients", but issues with the artifacts also affect users of Schema Registry and others. I guess the "Tools" category would be the closest match, but currently that forum does not explicitly mention Maven as one of the topics. Perhaps this could be clarified for the future. As far as I can tell, there is no GitHub repository that would suit this well, either.