diff --git a/.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml b/.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml
index d94d6e68433..e54bfe5fb5d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run Markdownlint
       run: |
         echo "::add-matcher::.github/workflows/markdownlint-problem-matcher.json"
-        npm i -g markdownlint-cli
+        npm i -g markdownlint-cli@0.45.0
         markdownlint --ignore '.dotnet/' --ignore '**/AnalyzerReleases.*.md' '**/*.md'
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a83d15edc10..3f4411bef33 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 [Tooling](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire/get-started/aspire-overview?#project-templates-and-tooling): .NET Aspire comes with project templates and tooling experiences for Visual Studio and the dotnet CLI which help you create and interact with .NET Aspire apps.
 
-To learn more, read the full [.NET Aspire overview and documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire/). Samples are available in the [.NET Aspire samples repository](https://github.com/dotnet/aspire-samples). You can find the eShop sample [here](https://github.com/dotnet/eshop) and the Azure version [here](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/eShopOnAzure).
+To learn more, read the full [.NET Aspire overview and documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire/). Samples are available in the [.NET Aspire samples repository](https://github.com/dotnet/aspire-samples). You can find the [eShop sample here](https://github.com/dotnet/eshop) and the [Azure version here](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/eShopOnAzure).
 
 ## What is in this repo?
 
diff --git a/src/Aspire.Dashboard/README.md b/src/Aspire.Dashboard/README.md
index 608a7ba0af3..fb0c321a2a6 100644
--- a/src/Aspire.Dashboard/README.md
+++ b/src/Aspire.Dashboard/README.md
@@ -130,4 +130,4 @@ The software may collect information about you and your use of the software and
 
 ### Opting out of data collection
 
-The .NET Aspire dashboard collects usage telemetry. Learn what's collected and why [here](https://aka.ms/dotnet/aspire/microsoft-collected-telemetry).  To opt out of dashboard telemetry, set the environment variable `ASPIRE_DASHBOARD_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT` to `true` or disable telemetry in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.
+The .NET Aspire dashboard collects usage telemetry. Learn [what's collected and why](https://aka.ms/dotnet/aspire/microsoft-collected-telemetry).  To opt out of dashboard telemetry, set the environment variable `ASPIRE_DASHBOARD_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT` to `true` or disable telemetry in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.
diff --git a/src/Components/Aspire_Components_Progress.md b/src/Components/Aspire_Components_Progress.md
index 4c742aac166..87c8ed3109e 100644
--- a/src/Components/Aspire_Components_Progress.md
+++ b/src/Components/Aspire_Components_Progress.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Nomenclature used in the table above:
 
 ### Contains README
 
-Each .NET Aspire integration must contain a README.md file which is included in the package. This README should contain the integration's main description, usage examples, and basic getting started documentation. The goal of this file is to contain everything a developer will need in the first 5 minutes. Finally, README should have a link pointed back to the full documentation of the integration, which will include a list of logging categories used, tracing activity names, and Metric names. For a concrete example of a README file, please look [here](./Aspire.StackExchange.Redis/README.md).
+Each .NET Aspire integration must contain a README.md file which is included in the package. This README should contain the integration's main description, usage examples, and basic getting started documentation. The goal of this file is to contain everything a developer will need in the first 5 minutes. Finally, README should have a link pointed back to the full documentation of the integration, which will include a list of logging categories used, tracing activity names, and Metric names. [Here's a concrete example of a README file](./Aspire.StackExchange.Redis/README.md).
 
 ### Public API
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Each integration should provide a `sealed` `Settings` type as well as named conf
 
 ### DI Services
 
-Integrations must have extension methods which will "glue" the services with the DI container. For an example of this, please check out the `AspireRedisExtensions` class [here](./Aspire.StackExchange.Redis/AspireRedisExtensions.cs). The extension methods that are registering the main integration's service to the container should be listed in the README file. The full list of registered services by the integration should be included in the main integration's documentation page.
+Integrations must have extension methods which will "glue" the services with the DI container. For an example of this, please check out the `AspireRedisExtensions` [class here](./Aspire.StackExchange.Redis/AspireRedisExtensions.cs). The extension methods that are registering the main integration's service to the container should be listed in the README file. The full list of registered services by the integration should be included in the main integration's documentation page.
 
 ### Health Checks