diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 32cc18325a4a..88fc97509b86 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ after_success:
         echo "Finished mvn clean deploy for $TRAVIS_BRANCH";
         pushd .;
         cd modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin;
-        ./gradlew -Psigning.keyId="$SIGNING_KEY" -Psigning.password="$SIGNING_PASSPHRASE" -Psigning.secretKeyRingFile="${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/sec.gpg" -PossrhUsername="${SONATYPE_USERNAME}" -PossrhPassword="${SONATYPE_PASSWORD}" uploadArchives --no-daemon;
-        echo "Finished ./gradlew uploadArchives";
+        ./gradlew -Psigning.keyId="$SIGNING_KEY" -Psigning.password="$SIGNING_PASSPHRASE" -Psigning.secretKeyRingFile="${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/sec.gpg" -PossrhUsername="${SONATYPE_USERNAME}" -PossrhPassword="${SONATYPE_PASSWORD}" publishPluginMavenPublicationToNexusRepository --no-daemon;
+        echo "Finished ./gradlew publishPluginMavenPublicationToNexusRepository";
         popd;
       elif ([[ "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.x$ ]]) ; then
         mvn clean deploy --settings CI/settings.xml;
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/build.gradle b/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/build.gradle
index 346deef7c4b6..3aa20c67236b 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/build.gradle
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 buildscript {
-    ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.60'
+    ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.61'
     repositories {
         mavenCentral()
         maven {
@@ -11,14 +11,13 @@ buildscript {
         maven {
             url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/"
         }
-        maven {
-            url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
-        }
     }
     dependencies {
         classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
         classpath "gradle.plugin.org.gradle.kotlin:gradle-kotlin-dsl-plugins:1.0-rc-3"
         classpath "com.gradle.publish:plugin-publish-plugin:0.10.1"
+        classpath "io.codearte.gradle.nexus:gradle-nexus-staging-plugin:0.20.0"
+        classpath "de.marcphilipp.gradle:nexus-publish-plugin:0.2.0"
     }
 }
 
@@ -35,10 +34,11 @@ ext.isReleaseVersion = !version.endsWith("SNAPSHOT")
 
 apply plugin: 'com.gradle.plugin-publish'
 apply plugin: 'java-gradle-plugin'
-apply plugin: 'maven'
 apply plugin: 'signing'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 apply plugin: "org.gradle.kotlin.kotlin-dsl"
+apply plugin: 'io.codearte.nexus-staging'
+apply plugin: "de.marcphilipp.nexus-publish"
 
 sourceCompatibility = 1.8
 targetCompatibility = 1.8
@@ -87,6 +87,54 @@ test {
     }
 }
 
+
+publishing {
+    publications {
+        mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
+            from components.java
+            pom {
+                name = 'OpenAPI-Generator Contributors'
+                description = project.description
+                url = 'https://openapi-generator.tech'
+                organization {
+                    name = 'org.openapitools'
+                    url = 'https://github.com/OpenAPITools'
+                }
+                licenses {
+                    license {
+                        name = "The Apache Software License, Version 2.0"
+                        url = "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"
+                        distribution = "repo"
+                    }
+                }
+                developers {
+                    developer {
+                        id = "openapitools"
+                        name = "OpenAPI-Generator Contributors"
+                        email = "team@openapitools.org"
+                    }
+                }
+                scm {
+                    url = 'https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator'
+                    connection = 'scm:git:git://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator.git'
+                    developerConnection = 'scm:git:ssh://git@github.com:OpenAPITools/openapi-generator.git'
+                }
+                issueManagement {
+                    system = 'GitHub'
+                    url = 'https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/issues'
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+nexusPublishing {
+    username = ossrhUsername
+    password = ossrhPassword
+    stagingProfileId = "org.openapitools"
+    packageGroup = "org.openapitools"
+}
+
 gradlePlugin {
     plugins {
         openApiGenerator {
@@ -109,6 +157,7 @@ pluginBundle {
             displayName = 'OpenAPI Generator Gradle Plugin'
             tags = ['openapi-3.0', 'openapi-2.0', 'openapi', 'swagger', 'codegen', 'sdk']
             version = "$openApiGeneratorVersion"
+            group = "org.openapitools"
         }
     }
 }
@@ -119,79 +168,7 @@ pluginBundle {
 // or stored as key=value pairs in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
 // You can also apply them in CI via environment variables. See Gradle's docs for details.
 signing {
-    required { isReleaseVersion && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("uploadArchives") }
-    sign configurations.archives
-}
-
-task javadocJar(type: Jar) {
-    classifier = 'javadoc'
-    from javadoc
-}
-
-task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
-    from sourceSets.main.allSource
-    classifier = 'sources'
-}
-
-artifacts {
-    archives javadocJar, sourcesJar
-}
-
-def pomConfig = {
-    description project.description
-    name 'OpenAPI-Generator Contributors'
-    url 'https://openapi-generator.tech'
-    organization {
-        name 'org.openapitools'
-        url 'https://github.com/OpenAPITools'
-    }
-    licenses {
-        license {
-            name "The Apache Software License, Version 2.0"
-            url "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"
-            distribution "repo"
-        }
-    }
-    developers {
-        developer {
-            id "openapitools"
-            name "OpenAPI-Generator Contributors"
-            email "team@openapitools.org"
-        }
-    }
-    scm {
-        url 'https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator'
-        connection 'scm:git:git://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator.git'
-        developerConnection 'scm:git:ssh://git@github.com:OpenAPITools/openapi-generator.git'
-    }
-    issueManagement {
-        system 'GitHub'
-        url 'https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/issues'
-    }
-}
-
-uploadArchives {
-    repositories {
-
-        // credentials here would need to be passed along with the gradle command:
-        //   ./gradlew -P ossrhUsername=yourUser
-        // or stored in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties as key=value pairs
-        mavenDeployer {
-            beforeDeployment { MavenDeployment deployment -> signing.signPom(deployment) }
-            repository(url: "https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/") {
-                authentication(userName: ossrhUsername, password: ossrhPassword)
-            }
-            snapshotRepository(url: "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/") {
-                authentication(userName: ossrhUsername, password: ossrhPassword)
-            }
-
-            pom.withXml {
-                def root = asNode()
-                root.appendNode('description', project.description)
-                root.children().last() + pomConfig
-            }
-        }
-    }
+    sign publishing.publications
 }
 
 compileKotlin {
@@ -205,4 +182,4 @@ compileTestKotlin {
     }
 }
 
-uploadArchives.dependsOn 'check'
+publishToNexus.dependsOn 'check'
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/settings.gradle b/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/settings.gradle
index 563879e5d5dd..dfb2ecf250c2 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/settings.gradle
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin/settings.gradle
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 rootProject.name = 'openapi-generator-gradle-plugin'
+enableFeaturePreview('STABLE_PUBLISHING')