diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index e505be7d4d98..2610f50a6244 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -64,24 +64,13 @@ jobs:
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
         repository: apache/spark
-        ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-    - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-      if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-      run: |
-        echo "APACHE_SPARK_REF=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
+        ref: branch-3.4
     - name: Check all modules
       id: set-outputs
       run: |
         if [ -z "${{ inputs.jobs }}" ]; then
           pyspark=true; sparkr=true; tpcds=true; docker=true;
           pyspark_modules=`cd dev && python -c "import sparktestsupport.modules as m; print(','.join(m.name for m in m.all_modules if m.name.startswith('pyspark')))"`
-          pyspark=`./dev/is-changed.py -m $pyspark_modules`
-          sparkr=`./dev/is-changed.py -m sparkr`
-          tpcds=`./dev/is-changed.py -m sql`
-          docker=`./dev/is-changed.py -m docker-integration-tests`
           # 'build' and 'maven-build' are always true for now.
           # It does not save significant time and most of PRs trigger the build.
           precondition="
@@ -113,175 +102,10 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         # Convert to lowercase to meet Docker repo name requirement
         REPO_OWNER=$(echo "${{ github.repository_owner }}" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
-        IMG_NAME="apache-spark-ci-image:${{ inputs.branch }}-${{ github.run_id }}"
+        IMG_NAME="apache-spark-ci-image:branch-3.4-${{ github.run_id }}"
         IMG_URL="ghcr.io/$REPO_OWNER/$IMG_NAME"
         echo "image_url=$IMG_URL" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
-  # Build: build Spark and run the tests for specified modules.
-  build:
-    name: "Build modules: ${{ matrix.modules }} ${{ matrix.comment }}"
-    needs: precondition
-    if: fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).build == 'true'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 300
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        java:
-          - ${{ inputs.java }}
-        hadoop:
-          - ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
-        hive:
-          - hive2.3
-        # Note that the modules below are from sparktestsupport/modules.py.
-        modules:
-          - >-
-            core, unsafe, kvstore, avro, utils,
-            network-common, network-shuffle, repl, launcher,
-            examples, sketch, variant
-          - >-
-            api, catalyst, hive-thriftserver
-          - >-
-            mllib-local, mllib, graphx
-          - >-
-            streaming, sql-kafka-0-10, streaming-kafka-0-10, streaming-kinesis-asl,
-            kubernetes, hadoop-cloud, spark-ganglia-lgpl, protobuf
-          - >-
-            yarn, connect
-        # Here, we split Hive and SQL tests into some of slow ones and the rest of them.
-        included-tags: [""]
-        excluded-tags: [""]
-        comment: [""]
-        include:
-          # Hive tests
-          - modules: hive
-            java: ${{ inputs.java }}
-            hadoop: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
-            hive: hive2.3
-            included-tags: org.apache.spark.tags.SlowHiveTest
-            comment: "- slow tests"
-          - modules: hive
-            java: ${{ inputs.java }}
-            hadoop: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
-            hive: hive2.3
-            excluded-tags: org.apache.spark.tags.SlowHiveTest
-            comment: "- other tests"
-          # SQL tests
-          - modules: sql
-            java: ${{ inputs.java }}
-            hadoop: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
-            hive: hive2.3
-            included-tags: org.apache.spark.tags.ExtendedSQLTest
-            comment: "- extended tests"
-          - modules: sql
-            java: ${{ inputs.java }}
-            hadoop: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
-            hive: hive2.3
-            included-tags: org.apache.spark.tags.SlowSQLTest
-            comment: "- slow tests"
-          - modules: sql
-            java: ${{ inputs.java }}
-            hadoop: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
-            hive: hive2.3
-            excluded-tags: org.apache.spark.tags.ExtendedSQLTest,org.apache.spark.tags.SlowSQLTest
-            comment: "- other tests"
-    env:
-      MODULES_TO_TEST: ${{ matrix.modules }}
-      EXCLUDED_TAGS: ${{ matrix.excluded-tags }}
-      INCLUDED_TAGS: ${{ matrix.included-tags }}
-      HADOOP_PROFILE: ${{ matrix.hadoop }}
-      HIVE_PROFILE: ${{ matrix.hive }}
-      GITHUB_PREV_SHA: ${{ github.event.before }}
-      SPARK_LOCAL_IP: localhost
-      SKIP_UNIDOC: true
-      SKIP_MIMA: true
-      SKIP_PACKAGING: true
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout Spark repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      # In order to fetch changed files
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-        repository: apache/spark
-        ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-    - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-      if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-      run: |
-        echo "APACHE_SPARK_REF=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
-    # Cache local repositories. Note that GitHub Actions cache has a 10G limit.
-    - name: Cache Scala, SBT and Maven
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: |
-          build/apache-maven-*
-          build/scala-*
-          build/*.jar
-          ~/.sbt
-        key: build-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', 'project/build.properties', 'build/mvn', 'build/sbt', 'build/sbt-launch-lib.bash', 'build/spark-build-info') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          build-
-    - name: Cache Coursier local repository
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: ~/.cache/coursier
-        key: ${{ matrix.java }}-${{ matrix.hadoop }}-coursier-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', '**/plugins.sbt') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          ${{ matrix.java }}-${{ matrix.hadoop }}-coursier-
-    - name: Free up disk space
-      run: |
-        if [ -f ./dev/free_disk_space ]; then
-          ./dev/free_disk_space
-        fi
-    - name: Install Java ${{ matrix.java }}
-      uses: actions/setup-java@v4
-      with:
-        distribution: zulu
-        java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
-    - name: Install Python 3.9
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      # We should install one Python that is higher than 3+ for SQL and Yarn because:
-      # - SQL component also has Python related tests, for example, IntegratedUDFTestUtils.
-      # - Yarn has a Python specific test too, for example, YarnClusterSuite.
-      if: contains(matrix.modules, 'yarn') || (contains(matrix.modules, 'sql') && !contains(matrix.modules, 'sql-')) || contains(matrix.modules, 'connect')
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.9'
-        architecture: x64
-    - name: Install Python packages (Python 3.9)
-      if: (contains(matrix.modules, 'sql') && !contains(matrix.modules, 'sql-')) || contains(matrix.modules, 'connect')
-      run: |
-        python3.9 -m pip install 'numpy>=1.20.0' pyarrow pandas scipy unittest-xml-reporting 'lxml==4.9.4' 'grpcio==1.62.0' 'grpcio-status==1.62.0' 'protobuf==4.25.1'
-        python3.9 -m pip list
-    # Run the tests.
-    - name: Run tests
-      env: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.envs) }}
-      shell: 'script -q -e -c "bash {0}"'
-      run: |
-        # Fix for TTY related issues when launching the Ammonite REPL in tests.
-        export TERM=vt100
-        # Hive "other tests" test needs larger metaspace size based on experiment.
-        if [[ "$MODULES_TO_TEST" == "hive" ]] && [[ "$EXCLUDED_TAGS" == "org.apache.spark.tags.SlowHiveTest" ]]; then export METASPACE_SIZE=2g; fi
-        # SPARK-46283: should delete the following env replacement after SPARK 3.x EOL
-        if [[ "$MODULES_TO_TEST" == *"streaming-kinesis-asl"* ]] && [[ "${{ inputs.branch }}" =~ ^branch-3 ]]; then 
-          MODULES_TO_TEST=${MODULES_TO_TEST//streaming-kinesis-asl, /}
-        fi
-        export SERIAL_SBT_TESTS=1
-        ./dev/run-tests --parallelism 1 --modules "$MODULES_TO_TEST" --included-tags "$INCLUDED_TAGS" --excluded-tags "$EXCLUDED_TAGS"
-    - name: Upload test results to report
-      if: always()
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: test-results-${{ matrix.modules }}-${{ matrix.comment }}-${{ matrix.java }}-${{ matrix.hadoop }}-${{ matrix.hive }}
-        path: "**/target/test-reports/*.xml"
-    - name: Upload unit tests log files
-      if: ${{ !success() }}
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: unit-tests-log-${{ matrix.modules }}-${{ matrix.comment }}-${{ matrix.java }}-${{ matrix.hadoop }}-${{ matrix.hive }}
-        path: "**/target/unit-tests.log"
-
   infra-image:
     name: "Base image build"
     needs: precondition
@@ -305,14 +129,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
           repository: apache/spark
-          ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-      - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-        if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-        run: |
-          echo "APACHE_SPARK_REF=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-          git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-          git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
+          ref: branch-3.4
       - name: Set up QEMU
         uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
@@ -326,7 +143,7 @@ jobs:
           tags: |
             ${{ needs.precondition.outputs.image_url }}
           # Use the infra image cache to speed up
-          cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/apache/spark/apache-spark-github-action-image-cache:${{ inputs.branch }}
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/apache/spark/apache-spark-github-action-image-cache:branch-3.4
 
   pyspark:
     needs: [precondition, infra-image]
@@ -341,12 +158,16 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         java:
-          - ${{ inputs.java }}
+          - 8
+        branch:
+          - branch-3.4
         modules:
           - >-
             pyspark-sql, pyspark-resource, pyspark-testing
           - >-
-            pyspark-core, pyspark-errors, pyspark-streaming
+            pyspark-core, pyspark-streaming
+          - >-
+            pyspark-errors
           - >-
             pyspark-mllib, pyspark-ml, pyspark-ml-connect
           - >-
@@ -365,7 +186,7 @@ jobs:
             pyspark-pandas-connect-part3
     env:
       MODULES_TO_TEST: ${{ matrix.modules }}
-      PYTHON_TO_TEST: 'python3.9'
+      PYTHON_TO_TEST: ''
       HADOOP_PROFILE: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
       HIVE_PROFILE: hive2.3
       GITHUB_PREV_SHA: ${{ github.event.before }}
@@ -382,17 +203,10 @@ jobs:
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
         repository: apache/spark
-        ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
+        ref: ${{ matrix.branch }}
     - name: Add GITHUB_WORKSPACE to git trust safe.directory
       run: |
         git config --global --add safe.directory ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-    - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-      if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-      run: |
-        echo "APACHE_SPARK_REF=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
     # Cache local repositories. Note that GitHub Actions cache has a 10G limit.
     - name: Cache Scala, SBT and Maven
       uses: actions/cache@v4
@@ -438,20 +252,34 @@ jobs:
         curl -s https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh > miniconda.sh
         bash miniconda.sh -b -p $HOME/miniconda
         rm miniconda.sh
+    - name: Install Python test dependencies for branch-3.4
+      if: matrix.branch == 'branch-3.4'
+      run: |
+        python3.9 -m pip install 'numpy==1.23.5' 'pandas<=1.5.3' 'pyarrow==12.0.1' 'matplotlib==3.8.3' 'torch==2.2.1' 'torchvision==0.17.1' 'scikit-learn==1.1.*'
+    - name: Install Python test dependencies for branch-3.5
+      if: matrix.branch == 'branch-3.5'
+      run: |
+        python3.9 -m pip install 'numpy==1.25.1' 'pandas<=2.0.3' 'pyarrow==12.0.1' 'matplotlib==3.7.2' 'torch==2.0.1' 'torchvision==0.15.2' 'scikit-learn==1.1.*'
     # Run the tests.
     - name: Run tests
       env: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.envs) }}
       shell: 'script -q -e -c "bash {0}"'
       run: |
+        python3.9 -m pip list
+        pypy3 -m pip list
+        export SCALA_PROFILE="scala2.13"
+        unset GITHUB_ACTIONS
         if [[ "$MODULES_TO_TEST" == *"pyspark-errors"* ]]; then
           export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/miniconda/bin
           export SKIP_PACKAGING=false
           echo "Python Packaging Tests Enabled!"
         fi
         if [ ! -z "$PYTHON_TO_TEST" ]; then
+          echo "1"
           ./dev/run-tests --parallelism 1 --modules "$MODULES_TO_TEST" --python-executables "$PYTHON_TO_TEST"
         else
           # For branch-3.5 and below, it uses the default Python versions.
+          echo "2"
           ./dev/run-tests --parallelism 1 --modules "$MODULES_TO_TEST"
         fi
     - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
@@ -476,85 +304,6 @@ jobs:
         name: unit-tests-log-${{ matrix.modules }}--${{ matrix.java }}-${{ inputs.hadoop }}-hive2.3-${{ env.PYTHON_TO_TEST }}
         path: "**/target/unit-tests.log"
 
-  sparkr:
-    needs: [precondition, infra-image]
-    # always run if sparkr == 'true', even infra-image is skip (such as non-master job)
-    if: (!cancelled()) && fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).sparkr == 'true'
-    name: "Build modules: sparkr"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 300
-    container:
-      image: ${{ needs.precondition.outputs.image_url }}
-    env:
-      HADOOP_PROFILE: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
-      HIVE_PROFILE: hive2.3
-      GITHUB_PREV_SHA: ${{ github.event.before }}
-      SPARK_LOCAL_IP: localhost
-      SKIP_UNIDOC: true
-      SKIP_MIMA: true
-      SKIP_PACKAGING: true
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout Spark repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      # In order to fetch changed files
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-        repository: apache/spark
-        ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-    - name: Add GITHUB_WORKSPACE to git trust safe.directory
-      run: |
-        git config --global --add safe.directory ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-    - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-      if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-      run: |
-        echo "APACHE_SPARK_REF=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
-    # Cache local repositories. Note that GitHub Actions cache has a 10G limit.
-    - name: Cache Scala, SBT and Maven
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: |
-          build/apache-maven-*
-          build/scala-*
-          build/*.jar
-          ~/.sbt
-        key: build-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', 'project/build.properties', 'build/mvn', 'build/sbt', 'build/sbt-launch-lib.bash', 'build/spark-build-info') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          build-
-    - name: Cache Coursier local repository
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: ~/.cache/coursier
-        key: sparkr-coursier-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', '**/plugins.sbt') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          sparkr-coursier-
-    - name: Free up disk space
-      run: |
-        if [ -f ./dev/free_disk_space_container ]; then
-          ./dev/free_disk_space_container
-        fi
-    - name: Install Java ${{ inputs.java }}
-      uses: actions/setup-java@v4
-      with:
-        distribution: zulu
-        java-version: ${{ inputs.java }}
-    - name: Run tests
-      env: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.envs) }}
-      run: |
-        # The followings are also used by `r-lib/actions/setup-r` to avoid
-        # R issues at docker environment
-        export TZ=UTC
-        export _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_=FALSE
-        ./dev/run-tests --parallelism 1 --modules sparkr
-    - name: Upload test results to report
-      if: always()
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: test-results-sparkr--${{ inputs.java }}-${{ inputs.hadoop }}-hive2.3
-        path: "**/target/test-reports/*.xml"
-
   buf:
     needs: [precondition]
     if: (!cancelled()) && fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).buf == 'true'
@@ -620,17 +369,10 @@ jobs:
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
         repository: apache/spark
-        ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
+        ref: branch-3.4
     - name: Add GITHUB_WORKSPACE to git trust safe.directory
       run: |
         git config --global --add safe.directory ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-    - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-      if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-      run: |
-        echo "APACHE_SPARK_REF=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
     # Cache local repositories. Note that GitHub Actions cache has a 10G limit.
     - name: Cache Scala, SBT and Maven
       uses: actions/cache@v4
@@ -666,7 +408,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-java@v4
       with:
         distribution: zulu
-        java-version: ${{ inputs.java }}
+        java-version: 8
     - name: License test
       run: ./dev/check-license
     - name: Dependencies test
@@ -680,31 +422,19 @@ jobs:
     - name: Spark connect jvm client mima check
       run: ./dev/connect-jvm-client-mima-check
     - name: Install Python linter dependencies for branch-3.4
-      if: inputs.branch == 'branch-3.4'
       run: |
         # SPARK-44554: Copy from https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/a05c27e85829fe742c1828507a1fd180cdc84b54/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml#L571-L578
         # Should delete this section after SPARK 3.4 EOL.
-        python3.9 -m pip install 'flake8==3.9.0' pydata_sphinx_theme 'mypy==0.920' 'pytest==7.1.3' 'pytest-mypy-plugins==1.9.3' numpydoc 'jinja2<3.0.0' 'black==22.6.0'
+        python3.9 -m pip list
+        python3.9 -m pip install 'flake8==3.9.0' pydata-sphinx-theme 'mypy==0.920' 'pytest==7.1.3' 'pytest-mypy-plugins==1.9.3' 'numpy==1.25.1' 'pyarrow==12.0.1' numpydoc 'jinja2<3.0.0' 'black==22.6.0' 'pandas==1.5.3' 'matplotlib==3.7.2'
         python3.9 -m pip install 'pandas-stubs==1.2.0.53' ipython 'grpcio==1.48.1' 'grpc-stubs==1.24.11' 'googleapis-common-protos-stubs==2.2.0'
     - name: Install Python linter dependencies for branch-3.5
       if: inputs.branch == 'branch-3.5'
       run: |
         # SPARK-45212: Copy from https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/555c8def51e5951c7bf5165a332795e9e330ec9d/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml#L631-L638
         # Should delete this section after SPARK 3.5 EOL.
-        python3.9 -m pip install 'flake8==3.9.0' pydata_sphinx_theme 'mypy==0.982' 'pytest==7.1.3' 'pytest-mypy-plugins==1.9.3' numpydoc 'jinja2<3.0.0' 'black==22.6.0'
+        python3.9 -m pip install 'flake8==3.9.0' pydata-sphinx-theme 'mypy==0.982' 'pytest==7.1.3' 'pytest-mypy-plugins==1.9.3' 'numpy==1.25.1' 'pyarrow==12.0.1' numpydoc 'jinja2<3.0.0' 'black==22.6.0' 'pandas<=2.0.3' 'matplotlib==3.7.2' 'torch==2.0.1' 'torchvision==0.15.2'
         python3.9 -m pip install 'pandas-stubs==1.2.0.53' ipython 'grpcio==1.56.0' 'grpc-stubs==1.24.11' 'googleapis-common-protos-stubs==2.2.0'
-    - name: Install Python dependencies for python linter and documentation generation
-      if: inputs.branch != 'branch-3.4' && inputs.branch != 'branch-3.5'
-      run: |
-        # Should unpin 'sphinxcontrib-*' after upgrading sphinx>5
-        # See 'ipython_genutils' in SPARK-38517
-        # See 'docutils<0.18.0' in SPARK-39421
-        python3.9 -m pip install 'sphinx==4.5.0' mkdocs 'pydata_sphinx_theme>=0.13' sphinx-copybutton nbsphinx numpydoc jinja2 markupsafe 'pyzmq<24.0.0' \
-          ipython ipython_genutils sphinx_plotly_directive 'numpy>=1.20.0' pyarrow pandas 'plotly>=4.8' 'docutils<0.18.0' \
-          'flake8==3.9.0' 'mypy==1.8.0' 'pytest==7.1.3' 'pytest-mypy-plugins==1.9.3' 'black==23.9.1' \
-          'pandas-stubs==1.2.0.53' 'grpcio==1.62.0' 'grpc-stubs==1.24.11' 'googleapis-common-protos-stubs==2.2.0' \
-          'sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.4' 'sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2' 'sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.1' 'sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3' 'sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5'
-        python3.9 -m pip list
     - name: Python linter
       run: PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python3.9 ./dev/lint-python
     # Should delete this section after SPARK 3.5 EOL.
@@ -723,7 +453,6 @@ jobs:
       run: if test -f ./dev/connect-check-protos.py; then PATH=$PATH:$HOME/buf/bin PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python3.9 ./dev/connect-check-protos.py; fi
     # Should delete this section after SPARK 3.5 EOL.
     - name: Install JavaScript linter dependencies for branch-3.4, branch-3.5
-      if: inputs.branch == 'branch-3.4' || inputs.branch == 'branch-3.5'
       run: |
         apt update
         apt-get install -y nodejs npm
@@ -731,7 +460,6 @@ jobs:
       run: ./dev/lint-js
     # Should delete this section after SPARK 3.5 EOL.
     - name: Install R linter dependencies for branch-3.4, branch-3.5
-      if: inputs.branch == 'branch-3.4' || inputs.branch == 'branch-3.5'
       run: |
         apt update
         apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libgit2-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev \
@@ -743,7 +471,6 @@ jobs:
       run: ./R/install-dev.sh
     # Should delete this section after SPARK 3.5 EOL.
     - name: Install dependencies for documentation generation for branch-3.4, branch-3.5
-      if: inputs.branch == 'branch-3.4' || inputs.branch == 'branch-3.5'
       run: |
         # pandoc is required to generate PySpark APIs as well in nbsphinx.
         apt-get update -y
@@ -753,10 +480,15 @@ jobs:
         Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
         Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
         # Should unpin 'sphinxcontrib-*' after upgrading sphinx>5
-        python3.9 -m pip install 'sphinx==4.5.0' mkdocs 'pydata_sphinx_theme>=0.13' sphinx-copybutton nbsphinx numpydoc jinja2 markupsafe 'pyzmq<24.0.0' 'sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.4' 'sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2' 'sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.1' 'sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3' 'sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5'
+        python3.9 -m pip install 'sphinx==3.0.4' mkdocs 'docutils==0.17.1' 'pydata-sphinx-theme==0.8.0' 'alabaster==0.7.12' sphinx-copybutton 'nbsphinx==0.9.2' 'numpydoc==1.4.0' 'jinja2==2.11.3' 'markupsafe==2.0.1' 'pyzmq<24.0.0' 'sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.4' 'sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2' 'sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.1' 'sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3' 'sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5'
         python3.9 -m pip install ipython_genutils # See SPARK-38517
-        python3.9 -m pip install sphinx_plotly_directive 'numpy>=1.20.0' pyarrow pandas 'plotly>=4.8'
-        python3.9 -m pip install 'docutils<0.18.0' # See SPARK-39421
+    - name: Install dependencies for documentation generation for branch-3.4
+      run: |
+        python3.9 -m pip install sphinx_plotly_directive 'numpy>=1.20.0' pyarrow 'pandas==1.5.3' 'plotly>=4.8'
+    - name: Install dependencies for documentation generation for branch-3.5
+      if: inputs.branch == 'branch-3.5'
+      run: |
+        python3.9 -m pip install sphinx_plotly_directive 'numpy>=1.20.0' pyarrow 'pandas=2.0.3' 'plotly>=4.8'
     - name: Install dependencies for documentation generation
       run: |
         gem install bundler -v 2.4.22
@@ -766,6 +498,7 @@ jobs:
       run: ./dev/lint-r
     - name: Run documentation build
       run: |
+        python3.9 -m pip list
         # Build docs first with SKIP_API to ensure they are buildable without requiring any
         # language docs to be built beforehand.
         cd docs; SKIP_API=1 bundle exec jekyll build; cd ..
@@ -788,67 +521,6 @@ jobs:
         path: site.tar.bz2
         retention-days: 1
 
-  maven-build:
-    needs: precondition
-    if: fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).maven-build == 'true'
-    name: Java ${{ matrix.java }} build with Maven (${{ matrix.os }})
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - java: 17
-            os: ubuntu-latest
-          - java: 21
-            os: ubuntu-latest
-          - java: 21
-            os: macos-14 
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    timeout-minutes: 300
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout Spark repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-        repository: apache/spark
-        ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-    - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-      if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-      run: |
-        git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
-    - name: Cache Scala, SBT and Maven
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: |
-          build/apache-maven-*
-          build/scala-*
-          build/*.jar
-          ~/.sbt
-        key: build-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', 'project/build.properties', 'build/mvn', 'build/sbt', 'build/sbt-launch-lib.bash', 'build/spark-build-info') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          build-
-    - name: Cache Maven local repository
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: ~/.m2/repository
-        key: java${{ matrix.java }}-maven-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          java${{ matrix.java }}-maven-
-    - name: Install Java ${{ matrix.java }}
-      uses: actions/setup-java@v4
-      with:
-        distribution: zulu
-        java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
-    - name: Build with Maven
-      run: |
-        export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xss64m -Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1g -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=WARN"
-        export MAVEN_CLI_OPTS="--no-transfer-progress"
-        export JAVA_VERSION=${{ matrix.java }}
-        # It uses Maven's 'install' intentionally, see https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/26414.
-        ./build/mvn $MAVEN_CLI_OPTS -DskipTests -Pyarn -Pkubernetes -Pvolcano -Phive -Phive-thriftserver -Phadoop-cloud -Djava.version=${JAVA_VERSION/-ea} install
-        rm -rf ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/spark
-
   # Any TPC-DS related updates on this job need to be applied to tpcds-1g-gen job of benchmark.yml as well
   tpcds-1g:
     needs: precondition
@@ -949,164 +621,3 @@ jobs:
       with:
         name: unit-tests-log-tpcds--${{ inputs.java }}-${{ inputs.hadoop }}-hive2.3
         path: "**/target/unit-tests.log"
-
-  docker-integration-tests:
-    needs: precondition
-    if: fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).docker-integration-tests == 'true'
-    name: Run Docker integration tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 300
-    env:
-      HADOOP_PROFILE: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
-      HIVE_PROFILE: hive2.3
-      GITHUB_PREV_SHA: ${{ github.event.before }}
-      SPARK_LOCAL_IP: localhost
-      ORACLE_DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME: gvenzl/oracle-free:23.3
-      SKIP_UNIDOC: true
-      SKIP_MIMA: true
-      SKIP_PACKAGING: true
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout Spark repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-        repository: apache/spark
-        ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-    - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-      if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-      run: |
-        echo "APACHE_SPARK_REF=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-        git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
-    - name: Cache Scala, SBT and Maven
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: |
-          build/apache-maven-*
-          build/scala-*
-          build/*.jar
-          ~/.sbt
-        key: build-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', 'project/build.properties', 'build/mvn', 'build/sbt', 'build/sbt-launch-lib.bash', 'build/spark-build-info') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          build-
-    - name: Cache Coursier local repository
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: ~/.cache/coursier
-        key: docker-integration-coursier-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', '**/plugins.sbt') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          docker-integration-coursier-
-    - name: Install Java ${{ inputs.java }}
-      uses: actions/setup-java@v4
-      with:
-        distribution: zulu
-        java-version: ${{ inputs.java }}
-    - name: Run tests
-      env: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.envs) }}
-      run: |
-        ./dev/run-tests --parallelism 1 --modules docker-integration-tests --included-tags org.apache.spark.tags.DockerTest
-    - name: Upload test results to report
-      if: always()
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: test-results-docker-integration--${{ inputs.java }}-${{ inputs.hadoop }}-hive2.3
-        path: "**/target/test-reports/*.xml"
-    - name: Upload unit tests log files
-      if: ${{ !success() }}
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: unit-tests-log-docker-integration--${{ inputs.java }}-${{ inputs.hadoop }}-hive2.3
-        path: "**/target/unit-tests.log"
-
-  k8s-integration-tests:
-    needs: precondition
-    if: fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).k8s-integration-tests == 'true'
-    name: Run Spark on Kubernetes Integration test
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 300
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Spark repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          repository: apache/spark
-          ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-      - name: Sync the current branch with the latest in Apache Spark
-        if: github.repository != 'apache/spark'
-        run: |
-          echo "APACHE_SPARK_REF=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          git fetch https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
-          git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' merge --no-commit --progress --squash FETCH_HEAD
-          git -c user.name='Apache Spark Test Account' -c user.email='sparktestacc@gmail.com' commit -m "Merged commit" --allow-empty
-      - name: Cache Scala, SBT and Maven
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: |
-            build/apache-maven-*
-            build/scala-*
-            build/*.jar
-            ~/.sbt
-          key: build-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', 'project/build.properties', 'build/mvn', 'build/sbt', 'build/sbt-launch-lib.bash', 'build/spark-build-info') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            build-
-      - name: Cache Coursier local repository
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: ~/.cache/coursier
-          key: k8s-integration-coursier-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml', '**/plugins.sbt') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            k8s-integration-coursier-
-      - name: Install Java ${{ inputs.java }}
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
-        with:
-          distribution: zulu
-          java-version: ${{ inputs.java }}
-      - name: start minikube
-        run: |
-          # See more in "Installation" https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/
-          curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
-          sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
-          rm minikube-linux-amd64
-          # Github Action limit cpu:2, memory: 6947MB, limit to 2U6G for better resource statistic
-          minikube start --cpus 2 --memory 6144
-      - name: Print K8S pods and nodes info
-        run: |
-          kubectl get pods -A
-          kubectl describe node
-      - name: Run Spark on K8S integration test
-        run: |
-          # Prepare PV test
-          PVC_TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
-          export PVC_TESTS_HOST_PATH=$PVC_TMP_DIR
-          export PVC_TESTS_VM_PATH=$PVC_TMP_DIR
-          minikube mount ${PVC_TESTS_HOST_PATH}:${PVC_TESTS_VM_PATH} --gid=0 --uid=185 &
-          kubectl create clusterrolebinding serviceaccounts-cluster-admin --clusterrole=cluster-admin --group=system:serviceaccounts || true
-          kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/volcano-sh/volcano/v1.8.2/installer/volcano-development.yaml || true
-          eval $(minikube docker-env)
-          build/sbt -Phadoop-3 -Psparkr -Pkubernetes -Pvolcano -Pkubernetes-integration-tests -Dspark.kubernetes.test.volcanoMaxConcurrencyJobNum=1 -Dtest.exclude.tags=local "kubernetes-integration-tests/test"
-      - name: Upload Spark on K8S integration tests log files
-        if: ${{ !success() }}
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: spark-on-kubernetes-it-log
-          path: "**/target/integration-tests.log"
-
-  ui:
-    needs: [precondition]
-    if: fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).ui == 'true'
-    name: Run Spark UI tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 300
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Use Node.js
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
-        with:
-          node-version: 20
-          cache: 'npm'
-          cache-dependency-path: ui-test/package-lock.json
-      - run: |
-          cd ui-test
-          npm install --save-dev
-          node --experimental-vm-modules node_modules/.bin/jest