diff --git a/tooling/hibernate-gradle-plugin/hibernate-gradle-plugin.gradle b/tooling/hibernate-gradle-plugin/hibernate-gradle-plugin.gradle
index 926380831ac4..7a41f2aa549c 100644
--- a/tooling/hibernate-gradle-plugin/hibernate-gradle-plugin.gradle
+++ b/tooling/hibernate-gradle-plugin/hibernate-gradle-plugin.gradle
@@ -168,3 +168,10 @@ gradle.taskGraph.whenReady { tg ->
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+tasks.register("releasePerform") {
+    group "release-perform"
+    description "See :release:releasePerform for details.  Here we hook in publishing to the Plugin Portal"
+
+    dependsOn tasks.publishPlugins
+}