JFrog, the company that maintains the JCenter artifact repository used by many Android projects, made JCenter a read-only repository on March 31, 2021. According to[the announcement](https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/), JCenter will allow downloads of existing artifacts indefinitely.

Developers who publish artifacts on JCenter should migrate their packages to a new host, such as[Maven Central](https://maven.apache.org/repository/index.html).

Developers who use dependencies from JCenter must find the new location of updated versions of those dependencies.
| **Warning:** Don't include the`jcenter()`repository in your build config to avoid getting outdated dependencies.