New gradle syntax?

build.gradle

@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ dependencies {
     testImplementation group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-core', version: '1.+'
 }
 
-modifyPom {
+publishing {
-    project {
+    publications {
+        mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
+            pom {
                 name 'EvA2'
                 description 'Gradle plugin that provides tasks for configuring and uploading artifacts to Sonatype Nexus.'
                 url 'http://www.ra.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/software/eva2/'
@@ -71,6 +73,8 @@ modifyPom {
                 }
             }
         }
+    }
+}
 
 extraArchive {
     sources = true