Closes gh-25351

Fixes gh-25147

Closes gh-25283

Closes gh-25348

Fixes gh-25309

Closes gh-25284

Closes gh-24886

Closes gh-25347

Closes gh-25069

Closes gh-25346

* pr/24620:
  Polish "Remove old documentation relating to yaml and profiles"
  Remove old documentation relating to yaml and profiles

Closes gh-24620

See gh-24620

See gh-24620

Closes gh-25344

Closes gh-25343

This commit reworks the CI pipeline to remove the use of Bintray for
publishing to Maven Central. In its place it adds a new
publishToCentral command to the release scripts. This command can be
used to publish a directory tree of artifacts to the Maven Central
gateway hosted by Sonatype.

Publishing consists of 4 steps:

1. Create the staging repository
2. Deploy artifacts to the repository
3. Close the repository
4. Release the repository

The command requires 3 arguments:

1. The type of release being performed
2. Location of a build info JSON file that describes the release
   that is to be deployed
3. Root of a directory structure, in Maven repository layout, that
   contains the artifacts to be deployed

Closes gh-25107

Closes gh-25342

Closes gh-25263

Closes gh-25341

Closes gh-25340

Closes gh-25339

Closes gh-25338

Closes gh-25282

Closes gh-25337

Closes gh-25336

Closes gh-25335

Closes gh-25334

Closes gh-25332

Closes gh-25331

Closes gh-25330

Closes gh-25329

Closes gh-25328

Closes gh-25327