on it Should work now and there is a version in maven central: https://bintray.com/mockito/maven/mockito/3.6.28#central
Release process misses commit message tag
https://github.com/mockito/mockito/runs/1447478222#step:4:168

https://github.com/mockito/mockito/commit/fde5abb9f044a6b614eeb6a8c63d25fffe2df210 did contain `[ci maven-central-release]` and therefore should have published.
.github/workflows/ci.yml gradle/shipkit.gradle
.github/workflows/ci.yml gradle/shipkit.gradle
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index b67cd75e35..236a08feab 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -91,5 +91,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Build and publish
       run: ./gradlew bintrayUpload githubRelease --scan
       env:
+        MAVEN_CENTRAL_RELEASE: ${{contains(toJSON(github.event.commits.*.message), '[ci maven-central-release]')}}
         GH_WRITE_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GH_WRITE_TOKEN}}
         BINTRAY_API_KEY: ${{secrets.BINTRAY_API_KEY}}
diff --git a/gradle/shipkit.gradle b/gradle/shipkit.gradle
index 1dd2f1cc23..2a430fe6f8 100644
--- a/gradle/shipkit.gradle
+++ b/gradle/shipkit.gradle
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ext.mavenCentralRelease = shouldReleaseToCentral(project)
  * To test this logic, run build with '-i' (info logging) and inspect the build output.
  */
 static boolean shouldReleaseToCentral(project) {
-    boolean centralReleaseByCommit = System.getenv("TRAVIS_COMMIT_MESSAGE")?.contains("[ci maven-central-release]")
+    boolean centralReleaseByCommit = 'true' == System.getenv("MAVEN_CENTRAL_RELEASE")
     boolean centralReleaseByProjectProperty = project.hasProperty("maven-central-release")
     boolean centralRelease = centralReleaseByCommit || centralReleaseByProjectProperty
     def message = """Bintray publish was using following settings:
