diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 626eb6aa..97f05189 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>de.tum.cit.ase</groupId>
     <artifactId>ares</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.0.0-Beta-1</version>
     <properties>
         <maven.compiler.source>21</maven.compiler.source>
         <arch.unit.version>1.3.0</arch.unit.version>
@@ -19,9 +19,16 @@
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <!-- if JaCoCo is not executed -->
         <argLine></argLine>
-        <!-- full certificate fingerprint: B58E410970742EF7AD0FDD48D1A045E1DD48B876 -->
-        <gpg.key.id>D1A045E1DD48B876</gpg.key.id>
+        <!-- full certificate fingerprint: 23E62BB282A473EE4DDA2F8763EFD39363D21A8D -->
+        <gpg.key.id>23E62BB282A473EE4DDA2F8763EFD39363D21A8D</gpg.key.id>
         <aspectj.version>1.9.22</aspectj.version>
+
+        <instrumentation-path>
+            ${project.build.directory}${file.separator}${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-agent.jar
+        </instrumentation-path>
+        <aspectj-path>
+            ${user.home}${file.separator}.m2${file.separator}repository${file.separator}org${file.separator}aspectj${file.separator}aspectjrt${file.separator}${aspectj.version}${file.separator}aspectjrt-${aspectj.version}.jar
+        </aspectj-path>
     </properties>
     <dependencies>
         <!-- Junit frameworks -->
@@ -189,13 +196,28 @@
                             <goal>install-file</goal>
                         </goals>
                         <configuration>
-                            <file>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.jar</file>
+                            <file>${project.build.directory}${file.separator}${project.build.finalName}.jar</file>
                             <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
                             <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
                             <version>${project.version}</version>
                             <packaging>jar</packaging>
                         </configuration>
                     </execution>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>install-pom</id>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>install-file</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <file>${basedir}${file.separator}pom.xml
+                            </file> <!-- Ensure this is correctly pointing to your POM file -->
+                            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
+                            <version>${project.version}</version>
+                            <packaging>pom</packaging>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
                     <execution>
                         <id>install-javadoc-jar</id>
                         <phase>install</phase>
@@ -203,7 +225,8 @@
                             <goal>install-file</goal>
                         </goals>
                         <configuration>
-                            <file>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}-javadoc.jar</file>
+                            <file>${project.build.directory}${file.separator}${project.build.finalName}-javadoc.jar
+                            </file>
                             <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
                             <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
                             <version>${project.version}</version>
@@ -218,7 +241,8 @@
                             <goal>install-file</goal>
                         </goals>
                         <configuration>
-                            <file>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}-sources.jar</file>
+                            <file>${project.build.directory}${file.separator}${project.build.finalName}-sources.jar
+                            </file>
                             <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
                             <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
                             <version>${project.version}</version>
@@ -348,11 +372,15 @@
                             <rules>
                                 <requireFilesDontExist>
                                     <files>
+                                        <!-- Required for de.tum.cit.ase.ares.api.security.ArtemisSecurityConfigurationTest -->
+                                        <!-- <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/abc/def/</file> -->
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/ch/qos/logback/</file>
+                                        <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/com/github/javaparser/</file>
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/com/intellij/</file>
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/com/sun/</file>
                                         <!-- We cannot fulfill this one because we are building those classes here
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/de/tum/cit/ase/ares/api/</file> -->
+                                        <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/de/tum/in/test/api/</file>
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/java/</file>
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/javax/</file>
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/jdk/</file>
@@ -365,9 +393,6 @@
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/org/junit/</file>
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/org/opentest4j/</file>
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/sun/</file>
-                                        <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/com/github/javaparser/</file>
-                                        <!-- Required for de.tum.cit.ase.ares.api.security.ArtemisSecurityConfigurationTest -->
-                                        <!-- <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/abc/def/</file> -->
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/org/gradle/</file>
                                         <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/worker/org/gradle/</file>
                                     </files>
@@ -401,11 +426,12 @@
                     <java>
                         <removeUnusedImports/>
                         <importOrder>
-                            <file>${basedir}/.settings/eclipse-rules.importorder</file>
+                            <file>${basedir}${file.separator}.settings${file.separator}eclipse-rules.importorder</file>
                         </importOrder>
                         <eclipse>
                             <version>4.17.0</version>
-                            <file>${basedir}/.settings/eclipse-formatter-rules.xml</file>
+                            <file>${basedir}${file.separator}.settings${file.separator}eclipse-formatter-rules.xml
+                            </file>
                         </eclipse>
                     </java>
                 </configuration>
@@ -446,7 +472,7 @@
                 <version>3.5.1</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <forkCount>1</forkCount>
-                    <argLine>-javaagent:${project.build.directory}${file.separator}ares-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT-agent.jar -Xbootclasspath/a:${user.home}${file.separator}.m2${file.separator}repository${file.separator}org${file.separator}aspectj${file.separator}aspectjrt${file.separator}${aspectj.version}${file.separator}aspectjrt-${aspectj.version}.jar</argLine>
+                    <argLine>-javaagent:${instrumentation-path} -Xbootclasspath/a:${aspectj-path}</argLine>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
             <!-- Shade Plugin to package the agent JAR -->
@@ -514,7 +540,35 @@
             </organization>
             <organizationUrl>https://ase.cit.tum.de/</organizationUrl>
             <roles>
-                <role>scientific researcher</role>
+                <role>Scientific Researcher</role>
+            </roles>
+            <timezone>Europe/Berlin</timezone>
+        </developer>
+        <developer>
+            <id>SarpSahinalp</id>
+            <name>Sarp Sahinalp</name>
+            <email>sarp.sahinalp@tum.de</email>
+            <url>https://ase.cit.tum.de/people/paulsen/</url>
+            <organization>Technical University of Munich, School of Computation, Information and Technology , Research
+                Group Applied Software Engineering
+            </organization>
+            <organizationUrl>https://ase.cit.tum.de/</organizationUrl>
+            <roles>
+                <role>Thesis Student</role>
+            </roles>
+            <timezone>Europe/Berlin</timezone>
+        </developer>
+        <developer>
+            <id>AnirudhZaveri</id>
+            <name>Anirudh Zaveri</name>
+            <email>anirudh.zaveri@tum.de</email>
+            <url>https://ase.cit.tum.de/people/paulsen/</url>
+            <organization>Technical University of Munich, School of Computation, Information and Technology , Research
+                Group Applied Software Engineering
+            </organization>
+            <organizationUrl>https://ase.cit.tum.de/</organizationUrl>
+            <roles>
+                <role>Thesis Student</role>
             </roles>
             <timezone>Europe/Berlin</timezone>
         </developer>
@@ -576,7 +630,7 @@
                 <!-- GitHub cannot handle snapshots correctly now, so we do nothing -->
                 <snapshotRepository>
                     <id>internal</id>
-                    <url>file://${project.build.directory}/mvn-repo</url>
+                    <url>file://${project.build.directory}${file.separator}mvn-repo</url>
                 </snapshotRepository>
             </distributionManagement>
         </profile>
@@ -591,7 +645,7 @@
                         <version>3.3.0</version>
                         <configuration>
                             <forkCount>1</forkCount>
-                            <argLine>-javaagent:/home/sarps/IdeaProjects/Ares2/target/ares-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT-agent.jar -Xbootclasspath/a:${user.home}/.m2/repository/org/aspectj/aspectjrt/${aspectj.version}/aspectjrt-${aspectj.version}.jar</argLine>
+                            <argLine>-javaagent:${instrumentation-path} -Xbootclasspath/a:${aspectj-path}</argLine>
                         </configuration>
                     </plugin>
                 </plugins>
@@ -600,19 +654,13 @@
         <!-- Profile for manually deploying to Maven Central -->
         <profile>
             <id>ossrh</id>
-            <distributionManagement>
-                <snapshotRepository>
-                    <id>ossrh</id>
-                    <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-                </snapshotRepository>
-            </distributionManagement>
             <build>
                 <plugins>
                     <!-- Only sign the plugin if it's built manually for OSSRH -->
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>3.1.0</version>
+                        <version>3.2.7</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>sign-artifacts</id>
@@ -634,13 +682,12 @@
                         </executions>
                     </plugin>
                     <plugin>
-                        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.6.13</version>
+                        <groupId>org.sonatype.central</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>central-publishing-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>0.6.0</version>
                         <extensions>true</extensions>
                         <configuration>
-                            <serverId>ossrh</serverId>
-                            <nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
+                            <publishingServerId>central</publishingServerId>
                         </configuration>
                     </plugin>
                 </plugins>