This PR fixed an issue where signing the maven publications will fail due to unescaped characters by encoding the key using base64 first. So the sequence becomes:
get the key on the password manager
encode the signing key using base64
assign it to the SIGNING_KEY_BASE64 GitHub actions secret.
This PR fixed an issue where signing the maven publications will fail due to unescaped characters by encoding the key using base64 first. So the sequence becomes: