diff --git a/.github/actions/create-dev-env/action.yml b/.github/actions/create-dev-env/action.yml
index 47e0df02..ea774d5a 100644
--- a/.github/actions/create-dev-env/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/create-dev-env/action.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ inputs:
 runs:
   using: composite
   steps:
-    # actions/setup-python doesn't suport Linux aarch64 runners
+    # actions/setup-python doesn't support Linux aarch64 runners
     # See: https://github.com/actions/setup-python/issues/108
     # python3 is manually preinstalled in the aarch64 VM self-hosted runner
     - name: Set Up Python 🐍
diff --git a/.github/workflows/sphinx.yml b/.github/workflows/sphinx.yml
index ef219956..9266a640 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/sphinx.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/sphinx.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ on:
       - "docs/**"
       - "README.md"
       - ".readthedocs.yaml"
-      - "requirements-docs.txt"
   push:
     branches:
       - main
@@ -21,7 +20,6 @@ on:
       - "docs/**"
       - "README.md"
       - ".readthedocs.yaml"
-      - "requirements-docs.txt"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
@@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Doc Dependencies 📦
         run: |
           pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install --upgrade -r requirements-docs.txt
+          pip install --upgrade -r docs/requirements.txt
 
       - name: Build Documentation 📖
         run: make docs
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index a82f5e38..771fa92e 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 repos:
   # Autoupdate: Python code
   - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
-    rev: v2.34.0
+    rev: v2.37.2
     hooks:
       - id: pyupgrade
         args: [--py39-plus]
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ repos:
 
   # Check python code static typing
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v0.961
+    rev: v0.971
     hooks:
       - id: mypy
         args: [--config, ./mypy.ini]
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ repos:
 
   # Lint: YAML
   - repo: https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint.git
-    rev: v1.26.3
+    rev: v1.27.1
     hooks:
       - id: yamllint
         args: ["-d {extends: relaxed, rules: {line-length: disable}}", "-s"]
@@ -102,21 +102,21 @@ repos:
 
   # Lint: Markdown
   - repo: https://github.com/igorshubovych/markdownlint-cli
-    rev: v0.31.1
+    rev: v0.32.1
     hooks:
       - id: markdownlint
         args: ["--fix"]
 
   # Strip output from Jupyter notebooks
   - repo: https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout
-    rev: 0.5.0
+    rev: 0.6.0
     hooks:
       - id: nbstripout
 
   # nbQA provides tools from the Python ecosystem like
   # pyupgrade, isort, black, and flake8, adjusted for notebooks.
   - repo: https://github.com/nbQA-dev/nbQA
-    rev: 1.3.1
+    rev: 1.4.0
     hooks:
       - id: nbqa-pyupgrade
         args: [--py39-plus]
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index 965d4a69..bbbc9475 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ sphinx:
 # Optionally declare the Python requirements required to build your docs
 python:
   install:
-    - requirements: requirements-docs.txt
+    - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fb150f65..740f9d78 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -67,10 +67,9 @@ linkcheck-docs: ## check broken links
 
 
 
-hook/%: WIKI_PATH?=wiki
 hook/%: ## run post-build hooks for an image
 	python3 -m tagging.tag_image --short-image-name "$(notdir $@)" --owner "$(OWNER)" && \
-	python3 -m tagging.write_manifest --short-image-name "$(notdir $@)" --owner "$(OWNER)" --wiki-path "$(WIKI_PATH)"
+	python3 -m tagging.write_manifest --short-image-name "$(notdir $@)" --hist-line-dir /tmp/hist_lines/ --manifest-dir /tmp/manifests/ --owner "$(OWNER)"
 hook-all: $(foreach I, $(ALL_IMAGES), hook/$(I)) ## run post-build hooks for all images
 
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 04ebd25c..b904d9ac 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ It then starts an _ephemeral_ container running a Jupyter Server and exposes the
 docker run -it --rm -p 10000:8888 -v "${PWD}":/home/jovyan/work jupyter/datascience-notebook:807999a41207
 ```
 
-The use of the `-v` flag in the command mounts the current working directory on the host (`{PWD}` in the example command) as `/home/jovyan/work` in the container.
+The use of the `-v` flag in the command mounts the current working directory on the host (`${PWD}` in the example command) as `/home/jovyan/work` in the container.
 The server logs appear in the terminal.
 
 Visiting `http://<hostname>:10000/?token=<token>` in a browser loads JupyterLab.
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 1f748265..4179cc5a 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ html_theme = "alabaster"
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
 html_static_path = ["_static"]
 
-# File above was generated using sphinx 4.3.2 with this command:
+# File above was generated using sphinx 4.5.0 with this command:
 # sphinx-quickstart --project "docker-stacks" --author "Project Jupyter" -v "latest" -r "latest" -l en --no-sep --no-makefile --no-batchfile
 # These are custom options for this project
 
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ html_logo = "_static/jupyter-logo.svg"
 html_theme_options = {
     "path_to_docs": "docs",
     "repository_url": "https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks",
+    "repository_branch": "main",
     "use_edit_page_button": True,
     "use_issues_button": True,
     "use_repository_button": True,
diff --git a/requirements-docs.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
similarity index 70%
rename from requirements-docs.txt
rename to docs/requirements.txt
index 85b8fdee..0e10dd90 100644
--- a/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # ReadTheDocs environment contains old package versions preinstalled
 # So, to ensure we have modern packages, we pin minimum versions of the packages we need
-docutils>=0.17
-myst-parser>=0.16.1
-sphinx>=4.4.0
-sphinx-book-theme>=0.3.2
+docutils>=0.17.1
+myst-parser>=0.18.0
+sphinx>=4.5.0
+sphinx-book-theme>=0.3.3
 sphinx-copybutton>=0.5.0
diff --git a/docs/using/specifics.md b/docs/using/specifics.md
index 626978a1..11dc2b1d 100644
--- a/docs/using/specifics.md
+++ b/docs/using/specifics.md
@@ -46,14 +46,13 @@ You can build a `pyspark-notebook` image (and also the downstream `all-spark-not
 
   - `spark_version`: The Spark version to install (`3.3.0`).
   - `hadoop_version`: The Hadoop version (`3.2`).
-  - `scala_version`: The Scala version (`2.13`).
+  - `scala_version`: The Scala version (`2.13`, optional).
   - `spark_checksum`: The package checksum (`BFE4540...`).
   - `openjdk_version`: The version of the OpenJDK (JRE headless) distribution (`17`).
     - This version needs to match the version supported by the Spark distribution used above.
     - See [Spark Overview](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/#downloading) and [Ubuntu packages](https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openjdk).
 
-- Starting with _Spark >= 3.2_ the distribution file contains Scala version, hence building older Spark will not work.
-- Building older version requires modification to the Dockerfile or using it's older version of the Dockerfile.
+- Starting with _Spark >= 3.2_ the distribution file might contain Scala version.
 
 For example here is how to build a `pyspark-notebook` image with Spark `3.2.0`, Hadoop `3.2` and OpenJDK `11`.
 
diff --git a/pyspark-notebook/Dockerfile b/pyspark-notebook/Dockerfile
index 1163e692..5106c820 100644
--- a/pyspark-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/pyspark-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ USER root
 # (ARGS are in lower case to distinguish them from ENV)
 ARG spark_version="3.3.0"
 ARG hadoop_version="3"
-ARG scala_version="2.13"
-ARG spark_checksum="4c09dac70e22bf1d5b7b2cabc1dd92aba13237f52a5b682c67982266fc7a0f5e0f964edff9bc76adbd8cb444eb1a00fdc59516147f99e4e2ce068420ff4881f0"
+ARG scala_version
+ARG spark_checksum="1e8234d0c1d2ab4462d6b0dfe5b54f2851dcd883378e0ed756140e10adfb5be4123961b521140f580e364c239872ea5a9f813a20b73c69cb6d4e95da2575c29c"
 ARG openjdk_version="17"
 
 ENV APACHE_SPARK_VERSION="${spark_version}" \
@@ -32,22 +32,29 @@ RUN apt-get update --yes && \
 
 # Spark installation
 WORKDIR /tmp
-RUN wget -q "https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}/spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}-scala${scala_version}.tgz" && \
-    echo "${spark_checksum} *spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}-scala${scala_version}.tgz" | sha512sum -c - && \
-    tar xzf "spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}-scala${scala_version}.tgz" -C /usr/local --owner root --group root --no-same-owner && \
-    rm "spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}-scala${scala_version}.tgz"
 
-WORKDIR /usr/local
+RUN if [ -z "${scala_version}" ]; then \
+    wget -qO "spark.tgz" "https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}/spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}.tgz"; \
+  else \
+    wget -qO "spark.tgz" "https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}/spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}-scala${scala_version}.tgz"; \
+  fi && \
+  echo "${spark_checksum} *spark.tgz" | sha512sum -c - && \
+  tar xzf "spark.tgz" -C /usr/local --owner root --group root --no-same-owner && \
+  rm "spark.tgz"
 
 # Configure Spark
 ENV SPARK_HOME=/usr/local/spark
 ENV SPARK_OPTS="--driver-java-options=-Xms1024M --driver-java-options=-Xmx4096M --driver-java-options=-Dlog4j.logLevel=info" \
     PATH="${PATH}:${SPARK_HOME}/bin"
 
-RUN ln -s "spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}-scala${scala_version}" spark && \
-    # Add a link in the before_notebook hook in order to source automatically PYTHONPATH
-    mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/before-notebook.d && \
-    ln -s "${SPARK_HOME}/sbin/spark-config.sh" /usr/local/bin/before-notebook.d/spark-config.sh
+RUN if [ -z "${scala_version}" ]; then \
+    ln -s "spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}" "${SPARK_HOME}"; \
+  else \
+    ln -s "spark-${APACHE_SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}-scala${scala_version}" "${SPARK_HOME}"; \
+  fi && \
+  # Add a link in the before_notebook hook in order to source automatically PYTHONPATH && \
+  mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/before-notebook.d && \
+  ln -s "${SPARK_HOME}/sbin/spark-config.sh" /usr/local/bin/before-notebook.d/spark-config.sh
 
 # Configure IPython system-wide
 COPY ipython_kernel_config.py "/etc/ipython/"
diff --git a/tests/base-notebook/test_container_options.py b/tests/base-notebook/test_container_options.py
index d60cc8bc..bf2a36df 100644
--- a/tests/base-notebook/test_container_options.py
+++ b/tests/base-notebook/test_container_options.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def test_unsigned_ssl(
     # properly while the server is booting up. An SSL handshake error seems to
     # abort the retry logic. Forcing a long sleep for the moment until I have
     # time to dig more.
-    time.sleep(5)
+    time.sleep(1)
     resp = http_client.get(f"https://localhost:{host_port}", verify=False)
     resp.raise_for_status()
     assert "login_submit" in resp.text
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ def test_nb_user_change(container: TrackedContainer) -> None:
         command=["start.sh", "bash", "-c", "sleep infinity"],
     )
 
-    # Give the chown time to complete. Use sleep, not wait, because the
-    # container sleeps forever.
-    time.sleep(10)
+    # Give the chown time to complete.
+    # Use sleep, not wait, because the container sleeps forever.
+    time.sleep(1)
     LOGGER.info(f"Checking if the user is changed to {nb_user} by the start script ...")
     output = running_container.logs().decode("utf-8")
     assert "ERROR" not in output
diff --git a/tests/base-notebook/test_packages.py b/tests/base-notebook/test_packages.py
index ecb5cd64..f7cbe7d1 100644
--- a/tests/base-notebook/test_packages.py
+++ b/tests/base-notebook/test_packages.py
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ Example:
 """
 
 import logging
-from typing import Callable, Iterable
+from collections.abc import Iterable
+from typing import Callable
 
 import pytest  # type: ignore
 
diff --git a/tests/base-notebook/test_start_container.py b/tests/base-notebook/test_start_container.py
index 0f5c9b12..b3d69610 100644
--- a/tests/base-notebook/test_start_container.py
+++ b/tests/base-notebook/test_start_container.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def test_start_notebook(
         ports={"8888/tcp": host_port},
     )
     # sleeping some time to let the server start
-    time.sleep(3)
+    time.sleep(1)
     logs = running_container.logs().decode("utf-8")
     LOGGER.debug(logs)
     # checking that the expected command is launched