diff --git a/client/build.gradle b/client/build.gradle
index b63482a53c..9224eb2353 100644
--- a/client/build.gradle
+++ b/client/build.gradle
@@ -107,35 +107,6 @@ publishing {
                 }
             }
         }
-        jars(MavenPublication) { publication ->
-            from components.java
-            artifact sourcesJar
-            artifact javadocJar
-
-            pom {
-                name = "OpenSearch Machine Learning Client"
-                packaging = "jar"
-                url = "https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons"
-                description = "OpenSearch Machine Learning Client"
-                scm {
-                    connection = "scm:git@github.com:opensearch-project/ml-commons.git"
-                    developerConnection = "scm:git@github.com:opensearch-project/ml-commons.git"
-                    url = "git@github.com:opensearch-project/ml-commons.git"
-                }
-                licenses {
-                    license {
-                        name = "The Apache License, Version 2.0"
-                        url = "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"
-                    }
-                }
-                developers {
-                    developer {
-                        name = "OpenSearch"
-                        url = "https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons"
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
 
     }
 
diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index d9d1038ac9..c3e101b283 100644
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ cp -r ./build/local-staging-repo/org/opensearch/. $OUTPUT/maven/org/opensearch
 ./gradlew assemble --no-daemon --refresh-dependencies -DskipTests=true -Dopensearch.version=$VERSION -Dbuild.snapshot=$SNAPSHOT -Dbuild.version_qualifier=$QUALIFIER
 [ -z "$OUTPUT" ] && OUTPUT=artifacts
 mkdir -p $OUTPUT/plugins
-cp ./plugin/build/distributions/*.zip $OUTPUT/plugins
\ No newline at end of file
+cp ./plugin/build/distributions/*.zip $OUTPUT/plugins
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 3a50a520f5..b69d65c8b6 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -14,4 +14,3 @@ project(":plugin").name = rootProject.name + "-plugin"
 include 'ml-algorithms'
 project(":ml-algorithms").name = rootProject.name + "-algorithms"
 
-startParameter.excludedTaskNames=["publishShadowPublicationToStagingRepository", "publishShadowPublicationToMavenLocal"]