diff --git a/libraries/build.gradle b/libraries/build.gradle
index 977a775d6fe..cad9fe50239 100644
--- a/libraries/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/build.gradle
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 buildscript {
     ext.kotlin_version = "1.1-SNAPSHOT"
     ext.kotlin_language_version = "1.1"
@@ -17,14 +16,12 @@ ext.JDK_17 = System.getenv("JDK_17")
 ext.JDK_18 = System.getenv("JDK_18")
 ext.bootstrapCompilerFile = project.file("${rootDir}/../dist/kotlinc/lib/kotlin-compiler.jar")
 
-allprojects  {
+allprojects {
     group = 'org.jetbrains.kotlin'
     version = "$kotlin_version"
 }
 
 subprojects {
-    apply plugin: 'maven'
-    apply plugin: 'signing'
 
     repositories {
         mavenCentral()
@@ -47,25 +44,6 @@ subprojects {
         classifier = 'javadoc'
     }
 
-    signing {
-        required { project.ext.has('signing.keyId') }
-        sign configurations.archives
-    }
-
-    uploadArchives {
-        repositories {
-            mavenDeployer {
-                repository(url: "file://${rootDir}/localRepo")
-                uniqueVersion = false
-                pom.version = kotlin_version
-                pom.project {
-                    groupId = project.group
-                    artifactId = project.name
-                    version = project.version
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 static def configureJvmProject(Project project) {
@@ -108,6 +86,64 @@ static def manifestAttributes(Manifest manifest, Project project, String compone
     }
 }
 
+static def configurePublishing(Project project) {
+    project.configure(project) {
+        apply plugin: 'maven'
+        apply plugin: 'signing'
+
+        signing {
+            required { (project.properties["signingRequired"] ?: false) }
+            sign configurations.archives
+        }
+
+        signArchives {
+            enabled signing.required
+        }
+
+        uploadArchives {
+            repositories {
+                mavenDeployer {
+                    beforeDeployment { MavenDeployment deployment -> signing.signPom(deployment) }
+                    repository(url: project.properties["deployRepoUrl"] ?: "file://${rootProject.buildDir}/repo") {
+                        authentication(
+                                userName: project.properties["deployRepoUsername"],
+                                password: project.properties["deployRepoPassword"]
+                        )
+                    }
+                    pom.project {
+                        name "${project.group}:${project.name}"
+                        packaging 'jar'
+                        // optionally artifactId can be defined here
+                        description project.description
+                        url 'https://kotlinlang.org/'
+                        licenses {
+                            license {
+                                name 'The Apache License, Version 2.0'
+                                url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
+                            }
+                        }
+                        scm {
+                            url 'https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin'
+                            connection 'scm:git:https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin.git'
+                            developerConnection 'scm:git:https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin.git'
+                        }
+                        developers {
+                            developer {
+                                name 'Kotlin Team'
+                                organization = 'JetBrains'
+                                organizationUrl 'https://www.jetbrains.com'
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        task publish(dependsOn: uploadArchives)
+    }
+
+}
+
 def createPreprocessorTask(Project project, def name, def sourceDir, def targetDir, def profile = "JS") {
     return project.tasks.create("preprocessSources$name", JavaExec) {
         inputs.dir(sourceDir)
diff --git a/libraries/kotlin.test/common/build.gradle b/libraries/kotlin.test/common/build.gradle
index a8752466dc8..98a3fac2dd0 100644
--- a/libraries/kotlin.test/common/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/kotlin.test/common/build.gradle
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ description = 'Kotlin Test Common'
 
 apply plugin: 'kotlin-platform-common'
 
+configurePublishing(project)
+
+
 dependencies {
     compile project(':kotlin-stdlib-common')
 }
diff --git a/libraries/kotlin.test/js/build.gradle b/libraries/kotlin.test/js/build.gradle
index bcb92790ebb..fd46c781419 100644
--- a/libraries/kotlin.test/js/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/kotlin.test/js/build.gradle
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ description = 'Kotlin Test for JS'
 
 apply plugin: 'kotlin-platform-js'
 
+configurePublishing(project)
+
 dependencies {
     implement project(':kotlin-test:kotlin-test-common')
     compile project(':kotlin-stdlib-js')
diff --git a/libraries/kotlin.test/junit/build.gradle b/libraries/kotlin.test/junit/build.gradle
index a78953a38df..c79cedd9766 100644
--- a/libraries/kotlin.test/junit/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/kotlin.test/junit/build.gradle
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ description = 'Kotlin Test JUnit'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 
 configureJvmProject(project)
+configurePublishing(project)
+
 
 dependencies {
     compile project(':kotlin-test:kotlin-test-jvm')
diff --git a/libraries/kotlin.test/jvm/build.gradle b/libraries/kotlin.test/jvm/build.gradle
index f431e5447fb..3f5db80dfe0 100644
--- a/libraries/kotlin.test/jvm/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/kotlin.test/jvm/build.gradle
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ description = 'Kotlin Test'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin-platform-jvm'
 
 configureJvmProject(project)
+configurePublishing(project)
 
 dependencies {
     implement project(':kotlin-test:kotlin-test-common')
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/build.gradle b/libraries/stdlib/build.gradle
index ccab3ea0628..4afda7b2967 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/build.gradle
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ description = 'Kotlin Standard Library'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 
 configureJvmProject(project)
+configurePublishing(project)
 
 sourceSets {
     builtins {
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/common/build.gradle b/libraries/stdlib/common/build.gradle
index e641ec6c8c5..84759eb3530 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/common/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/common/build.gradle
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ description = 'Kotlin Common Standard Library'
 
 apply plugin: 'kotlin-platform-common'
 
+configurePublishing(project)
+
 ext.commonSrcDir = "${buildDir}/common-sources"
 
 sourceSets {
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/jre7/build.gradle b/libraries/stdlib/jre7/build.gradle
index 866a51dd11a..ef66af9f61c 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/jre7/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/jre7/build.gradle
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ description = 'Kotlin Standard Library JRE 7 extension'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 
 configureJvmProject(project)
+configurePublishing(project)
 
 dependencies {
     compile project(':kotlin-stdlib')
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/jre8/build.gradle b/libraries/stdlib/jre8/build.gradle
index 804711b4ced..7cb286a19c4 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/jre8/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/jre8/build.gradle
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ description = 'Kotlin Standard Library JRE 8 extension'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 
 configureJvmProject(project)
+configurePublishing(project)
 
 dependencies {
     compile project(':kotlin-stdlib')
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/js/build.gradle b/libraries/stdlib/js/build.gradle
index bec32856998..57871187973 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/js/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/js/build.gradle
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ description = 'Kotlin Standard Library for JS'
 
 apply plugin: 'kotlin2js'
 
+configurePublishing(project)
+
+
 def builtinsSrcDir = "${buildDir}/builtin-sources"
 def commonSrcDir = "${buildDir}/common-sources"
 def commonTestSrcDir = "${buildDir}/common-test-sources"
diff --git a/libraries/tools/kotlin-reflect/build.gradle b/libraries/tools/kotlin-reflect/build.gradle
index 2dc0f9a102a..8dc452a50da 100644
--- a/libraries/tools/kotlin-reflect/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/tools/kotlin-reflect/build.gradle
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ apply plugin: 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 
 configureJvmProject(project)
+configurePublishing(project)
 
 
 def core = "${rootDir}/../core"
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ task reflectShadowJar(type: ShadowJar) {
 createScriptTask(project, "stripMetadata") {
     dependsOn reflectShadowJar
     def inputJar = reflectShadowJar.archivePath
-    def outputJar = "${buildDir}/libs/kotlin-reflect-stripped.jar"
+    def outputJar = "${libsDir}/kotlin-reflect-stripped.jar"
     inputs.file(inputJar)
     outputs.file(outputJar)
     args += [
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ createScriptTask(project, "stripMetadata") {
 
 
 def mainArchiveName = "${archivesBaseName}-${project.version}.jar"
-def outputJarPath = "${buildDir}/libs/${mainArchiveName}"
+def outputJarPath = "${libsDir}/${mainArchiveName}"
 def rtJar = ['jre/lib/rt.jar', '../Classes/classes.jar'].collect { new File(JDK_16, it) }.find { it.isFile() }
 
 task proguard(type: proguard.gradle.ProGuardTask) {
diff --git a/libraries/tools/protobuf-lite/build.gradle b/libraries/tools/protobuf-lite/build.gradle
index a79d895bf0c..0faccce3e21 100644
--- a/libraries/tools/protobuf-lite/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/tools/protobuf-lite/build.gradle
@@ -10,14 +10,15 @@ buildscript {
     }
 }
 
+apply plugin: 'base'
 apply plugin: 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow'
 
-
 def protobufVersion = "2.6.1"
-def outputJarPath = "$buildDir/libs/${archivesBaseName}-${protobufVersion}.jar"
-
 version = protobufVersion
 
+def outputJarPath = "${libsDir}/${archivesBaseName}-${protobufVersion}.jar"
+
+
 configurations {
     protobuf
     protobufSrc
diff --git a/libraries/tools/runtime/build.gradle b/libraries/tools/runtime/build.gradle
index b8775de4fa2..c59d62f61cb 100644
--- a/libraries/tools/runtime/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/tools/runtime/build.gradle
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ description 'Kotlin Runtime (deprecated, use koltin-stdlib artifact instead)'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 
 configureJvmProject(project)
+configurePublishing(project)
 
 dependencies {
     compile group: 'org.jetbrains', name: 'annotations', version:'13.0'
diff --git a/libraries/tools/script-runtime/build.gradle b/libraries/tools/script-runtime/build.gradle
index 48657cb8cfa..98f29ef7651 100644
--- a/libraries/tools/script-runtime/build.gradle
+++ b/libraries/tools/script-runtime/build.gradle
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ description 'Kotlin Script Runtime'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 
 configureJvmProject(project)
+configurePublishing(project)
 
 dependencies {
     compileOnly project(':kotlin-stdlib')