Publish using Sonatype APIs directly and Revert "revert "kn: merge to main (#1423)" (#1431)"

[lauzadis]

This reverts commit b7a7139.

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Affected Artifacts

Changed in size

Artifact	Pull Request (bytes)	Latest Release (bytes)	Delta (bytes)	Delta (percentage)
http-test-jvm.jar	62,181	59,427	2,754	4.63%
crt-util-jvm.jar	21,733	21,055	678	3.22%
aws-signing-default-jvm.jar	68,505	66,941	1,564	2.34%
runtime-core-jvm.jar	852,677	835,526	17,151	2.05%
http-client-engine-crt-jvm.jar	54,233	53,980	253	0.47%
aws-signing-crt-jvm.jar	16,114	16,081	33	0.21%
test-suite-jvm.jar	99,844	100,085	-241	-0.24%