After upgrading jenkins from 1.428 to 1.440 maven deploys fail with the error below. This problem still exists after upgrading to 1.446.
The redirect is correct, the failing obviously not. Deploying from the maven commandline (same settings) works without problems.

[INFO] Deployment in http://xxxx (id=xxxx,uniqueVersion=false)
Deploying the main artifact xxx-0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
ERROR: Error deploying artifact: Failed to transfer file: http://xxx/xxx-0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar. Return code is: 301, ReasonPhrase:Moved Permanently.
org.apache.maven.artifact.deployer.ArtifactDeploymentException: Error deploying artifact: Failed to transfer file: http://xxx/xxx-0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar. Return code is: 301, ReasonPhrase:Moved Permanently.
at hudson.maven.artifact.deployer.DefaultArtifactDeployer.deploy(DefaultArtifactDeployer.java:175)
at hudson.maven.reporters.MavenArtifactRecord.deploy(MavenArtifactRecord.java:182)
at hudson.maven.RedeployPublisher.perform(RedeployPublisher.java:158)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:697)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:672)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$RunnerImpl.post2(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:1014)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:619)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1429)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:481)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:238)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.TransferFailedException: Failed to transfer file: http://xxx/xxx-0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar. Return code is: 301, ReasonPhrase:Moved Permanently.
at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:562)
at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:471)
at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:451)
at org.apache.maven.repository.legacy.DefaultWagonManager.putRemoteFile(DefaultWagonManager.java:543)
at org.apache.maven.repository.legacy.DefaultWagonManager.putArtifact(DefaultWagonManager.java:494)
at hudson.maven.artifact.deployer.DefaultArtifactDeployer.deploy(DefaultArtifactDeployer.java:160)
... 11 more
[INFO] Deployment failed after 1.9 sec
Build step 'Deploy artifacts to Maven repository' changed build result to FAILURE