temporarily point to staging repo for CI purposes
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index c9ed0f0..9d2d60b 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 
 # release properties, set these on the command line to validate against
 # a release candidate
-geodeRepositoryUrl =
-geodeReleaseUrl =
+geodeRepositoryUrl = https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachegeode-1083
+geodeReleaseUrl = https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/geode/1.12.3.RC2
 
 # dependency versions not found in geode-all-bom
 micrometerVersion = 1.2.1