I want this too. Google’s mirror of Maven Central is taking too long to sync with the upstream.
Update: To get around the Google mirror, you can set the real Maven central as a mirror in a settings.xml file and pass that to the mvn command with -s. For an example: https://github.com/ksclarke/vertx-super-s3/blob/master/src/test/resources/settings.xml#L21 and https://github.com/ksclarke/vertx-super-s3/blob/master/.travis.yml#L17