temporary commit to allow CI access to the Release Candidate staging maven
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index d26364a..e75c1c9 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-1055
+geodeReleaseUrl = https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/geode/1.9.1.RC1
 
 # dependency versions
 assertjVersion = 3.6.2