diff --git a/.github/actions/test-gradle-project/action.yml b/.github/actions/test-gradle-project/action.yml
index 0fec385d0a..49eb2b660a 100644
--- a/.github/actions/test-gradle-project/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/test-gradle-project/action.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ runs:
       shell: bash
       run: ./gradlew --info -Pneo4jVersionOverride=$NEO4JVERSION -Pneo4jDockerEeOverride=$NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE -Pneo4jDockerCeOverride=$NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE :${{inputs.project-name}}:check --parallel
     - name: Archive test results
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
       if: always()
       with:
         name: ${{inputs.project-name}}-test-results
diff --git a/.github/workflows/CI.yaml b/.github/workflows/CI.yaml
index 82f8f53fe1..62f24f93f1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/CI.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/CI.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ on:
     branches: [ "2025.01" ]
 
 env:
-  CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL: ${{ secrets.CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL }}
+  CODEARTIFACT_BUILD_SERVICE_LIVE_URL: ${{ secrets.CODEARTIFACT_BUILD_SERVICE_LIVE_URL }}
   CODEARTIFACT_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.CODEARTIFACT_USERNAME }}
   ECR_NEO4J_DOCKER_URL: ${{ secrets.ECR_NEO4J_DOCKER_URL }}
   BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}
@@ -45,25 +45,32 @@ jobs:
       - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-jdk
       - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-gradle-cache
 
-      - name: Determine latest neo4j CI version and docker images
+      - name: Determine CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL, NEO4JVERSION and Docker Image environment variables
         run: |
+          echo "Current branch BRANCH_NAME=$BRANCH_NAME"
           neo4j_version_base=$(grep -e "neo4jVersion = .*" build.gradle | cut -d '=' -f 2 | tr -d \'\" | tr -d ' ')
-          echo "neo4j_version_base=$neo4j_version_base"
-          NEO4JVERSION=`aws codeartifact list-package-versions --domain build-service-live --domain-owner ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCOUNT_ID }} --repository ci-live --format maven --namespace org.neo4j --package neo4j --sort-by PUBLISHED_TIME --query "versions[?starts_with(version,'$neo4j_version_base')] | [0].version" | tr -d '" '`
-          echo "NEO4JVERSION=$NEO4JVERSION" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "Found NEO4JVERSION=$NEO4JVERSION"
-          if [[ $BRANCH_NAME =~ ^5.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
-            NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE="neo4j:$neo4j_version_base-enterprise"
-            NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE="neo4j:$neo4j_version_base"
-          else
+          if [[ $BRANCH_NAME == "dev" ]]; then
+            echo "Running on dev branch and so pointing to ci-live repository in AWS CodeArtifact for CI artifacts"
+            CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL="$CODEARTIFACT_BUILD_SERVICE_LIVE_URL/maven/ci-live"
+            NEO4JVERSION=`aws --no-cli-pager codeartifact list-package-versions --domain build-service-live --domain-owner ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCOUNT_ID }}  --repository ci-live --format maven --namespace org.neo4j --package neo4j --sort-by PUBLISHED_TIME --status Published --query "versions[?starts_with(version, '$neo4j_version_base')].version | [0]" --output json | sed 's/"//g'`
             NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE="$ECR_NEO4J_DOCKER_URL:$neo4j_version_base-community-debian-nightly"
             NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE="$ECR_NEO4J_DOCKER_URL:$neo4j_version_base-enterprise-debian-nightly"
+          else
+            echo "Running on branch $BRANCH_NAME and so pointing to release-live repository in AWS CodeArtifact for release artifacts"
+            CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL="$CODEARTIFACT_BUILD_SERVICE_LIVE_URL/maven/release-live"
+            NEO4JVERSION=$neo4j_version_base
+            NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE="neo4j:$neo4j_version_base"
+            NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE="neo4j:$neo4j_version_base-enterprise"
           fi
-          echo "NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL=$CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+          echo "Found NEO4JVERSION=$NEO4JVERSION"
+          echo "Found NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE"
           echo "Found NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE"
+
+          echo "NEO4JVERSION=$NEO4JVERSION" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "Found NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE"
-          echo "Current branch BRANCH_NAME=$BRANCH_NAME"
+          echo "NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
       - name: Compile Java
         run: |
@@ -71,7 +78,7 @@ jobs:
           ./gradlew --no-daemon --info -Pneo4jVersionOverride=$NEO4JVERSION --init-script init.gradle clean
       # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
       - name: Initialize CodeQL
-        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3.28.8
         with:
           languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
 
@@ -79,7 +86,7 @@ jobs:
         run: ./gradlew --info -Pneo4jVersionOverride=$NEO4JVERSION compileJava compileTestJava
 
       - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3.28.8
         with:
           category: "/language:${{matrix.language}}"
   
@@ -120,25 +127,32 @@ jobs:
             ~/.gradle/wrapper
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-gradle-${{ hashFiles('**/*.gradle*', '**/gradle-wrapper.properties') }}
 
-      - name: Determine latest neo4j CI version and docker images
+      - name: Determine CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL, NEO4JVERSION and Docker Image environment variables
         run: |
+          echo "Current branch BRANCH_NAME=$BRANCH_NAME"
           neo4j_version_base=$(grep -e "neo4jVersion = .*" build.gradle | cut -d '=' -f 2 | tr -d \'\" | tr -d ' ')
-          echo "neo4j_version_base=$neo4j_version_base"
-          NEO4JVERSION=`aws codeartifact list-package-versions --domain build-service-live --domain-owner ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCOUNT_ID }} --repository ci-live --format maven --namespace org.neo4j --package neo4j --sort-by PUBLISHED_TIME --query "versions[?starts_with(version,'$neo4j_version_base')] | [0].version" | tr -d '" '`
-          echo "NEO4JVERSION=$NEO4JVERSION" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "Found NEO4JVERSION=$NEO4JVERSION"
-          if [[ $BRANCH_NAME =~ ^5.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
-            NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE="neo4j:$neo4j_version_base-enterprise"
-            NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE="neo4j:$neo4j_version_base"
+          if [[ $BRANCH_NAME == "dev" ]]; then
+            echo "Running on dev branch and so pointing to ci-live repository in AWS CodeArtifact for CI artifacts"
+            CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL="$CODEARTIFACT_BUILD_SERVICE_LIVE_URL/maven/ci-live"
+            NEO4JVERSION=`aws --no-cli-pager codeartifact list-package-versions --domain build-service-live --domain-owner ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCOUNT_ID }}  --repository ci-live --format maven --namespace org.neo4j --package neo4j --sort-by PUBLISHED_TIME --status Published --query "versions[?starts_with(version, '$neo4j_version_base')].version | [0]" --output json | sed 's/"//g'`
+            NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE="$ECR_NEO4J_DOCKER_URL:$neo4j_version_base-community-debian-nightly"
+            NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE="$ECR_NEO4J_DOCKER_URL:$neo4j_version_base-enterprise-debian-nightly"
           else
-            NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE="$ECR_NEO4J_DOCKER_URL/build-service/neo4j:$neo4j_version_base-community-debian-nightly"
-            NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE="$ECR_NEO4J_DOCKER_URL/build-service/neo4j:$neo4j_version_base-enterprise-debian-nightly"
+            echo "Running on branch $BRANCH_NAME and so pointing to release-live repository in AWS CodeArtifact for release artifacts"
+            CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL="$CODEARTIFACT_BUILD_SERVICE_LIVE_URL/maven/release-live"
+            NEO4JVERSION=$neo4j_version_base
+            NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE="neo4j:$neo4j_version_base"
+            NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE="neo4j:$neo4j_version_base-enterprise"
           fi
-          echo "NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL=$CODEARTIFACT_DOWNLOAD_URL" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+          echo "Found NEO4JVERSION=$NEO4JVERSION"
+          echo "Found NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE"
           echo "Found NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE"
+
+          echo "NEO4JVERSION=$NEO4JVERSION" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "Found NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_CE_OVERRIDE"
-          echo "Current branch BRANCH_NAME=$BRANCH_NAME"
+          echo "NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE=$NEO4J_DOCKER_EE_OVERRIDE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
       - name: Init gradle
         run: |
diff --git a/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/couchbase/CouchbaseIT.java b/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/couchbase/CouchbaseIT.java
index 7b9b79eaa4..9d921a15cd 100644
--- a/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/couchbase/CouchbaseIT.java
+++ b/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/couchbase/CouchbaseIT.java
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 import static org.neo4j.test.assertion.Assert.assertEventually;
 
-@Ignore
 public class CouchbaseIT {
 
     private static int numberConnections = 0;
diff --git a/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/CypherProceduresClusterRoutingTest.java b/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/CypherProceduresClusterRoutingTest.java
index 90f48ae0e7..278d8e1c71 100644
--- a/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/CypherProceduresClusterRoutingTest.java
+++ b/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/CypherProceduresClusterRoutingTest.java
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 import static org.neo4j.configuration.GraphDatabaseSettings.SYSTEM_DATABASE_NAME;
 import static org.neo4j.test.assertion.Assert.assertEventually;
 
-@Ignore
 public class CypherProceduresClusterRoutingTest {
     private static final long TIMEOUT = 30L;
     private static final int NUM_CORES = 3;
diff --git a/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/MetricsTest.java b/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/MetricsTest.java
index 64ae293365..bdcf5cd61f 100644
--- a/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/MetricsTest.java
+++ b/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/MetricsTest.java
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
  * @since 13.02.19
  */
 // TODO Investigate why this test is not working. Possibly increase timeout for container
-@Ignore
 public class MetricsTest {
 
     private static Neo4jContainerExtension neo4jContainer;
diff --git a/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/UUIDClusterRoutingTest.java b/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/UUIDClusterRoutingTest.java
index 10cca3560b..59b2b35651 100644
--- a/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/UUIDClusterRoutingTest.java
+++ b/extended-it/src/test/java/apoc/neo4j/docker/UUIDClusterRoutingTest.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 import static org.neo4j.configuration.GraphDatabaseSettings.SYSTEM_DATABASE_NAME;
 
-@Ignore
 public class UUIDClusterRoutingTest {
     private static final int NUM_CORES = 4;
     private static TestcontainersCausalCluster cluster;
diff --git a/extended/build.gradle b/extended/build.gradle
index 762a282908..ff3569d5d4 100644
--- a/extended/build.gradle
+++ b/extended/build.gradle
@@ -133,9 +133,32 @@ dependencies {
 
     testImplementation group: 'org.apache.arrow', name: 'arrow-vector', version: '13.0.0'
     testImplementation group: 'org.apache.arrow', name: 'arrow-memory-netty', version: '13.0.0'
+    
+    def withoutServerEE8 = {
+        exclude group: 'org.eclipse.jetty'
+        exclude group: 'org.eclipse.jetty.aggregate'
+        exclude group: 'org.apache.hive', module: 'hive-service'
+        exclude group: 'org.eclipse.jetty.ee8'
+        exclude group: 'org.eclipse.jetty.http2'
+    }
+
+    testImplementation group: 'org.neo4j.community', name: 'it-test-support', version: neo4jVersionEffective, withoutServerEE8
+    testImplementation group: 'org.neo4j', name: 'log-test-utils', version: neo4jVersionEffective, withoutServerEE8
+    testImplementation group: 'org.neo4j', name: 'neo4j-common', version: neo4jVersionEffective, classifier: "tests", withoutServerEE8
+    testImplementation group: 'org.neo4j', name: 'neo4j-kernel', version: neo4jVersionEffective, classifier: "tests", withoutServerEE8
+    testImplementation group: 'org.neo4j', name: 'neo4j-io', version: neo4jVersionEffective, classifier: "tests", withoutServerEE8
+
+    def hadoopVersion = '3.4.0'
+    testImplementation group: 'org.apache.hadoop', name: 'hadoop-hdfs', version: hadoopVersion
+    testImplementation group: 'org.apache.hadoop', name: 'hadoop-common', version: hadoopVersion
+    testImplementation group: 'org.apache.hadoop', name: 'hadoop-minicluster', version: hadoopVersion
 
     // These dependencies affect the tests only, they will not be packaged in the resulting .jar
-    testImplementation project(':test-utils')
+    testImplementation project(':test-utils'), {
+        exclude group: 'org.apache.hadoop'
+        exclude group: 'org.neo4j'
+        exclude group: 'org.neo4j.community'
+    }
     testImplementation project(':core')
     testImplementation group: 'org.apache.poi', name: 'poi', version: '5.1.0', {
         exclude group: 'org.apache.commons', module: 'commons-collections4'
@@ -164,8 +187,8 @@ dependencies {
     testImplementation group: 'com.opencsv', name: 'opencsv', version: '5.7.1', {
         exclude group: 'org.apache.commons', module: 'commons-collections4'
     }
-
-    configurations.all {
+    
+    configurations.configureEach {
         exclude group: 'org.slf4j', module: 'slf4j-nop'
         exclude group: 'ch.qos.logback', module: 'logback-classic'
     }
diff --git a/extended/src/main/java/apoc/ml/OpenAI.java b/extended/src/main/java/apoc/ml/OpenAI.java
index 4bc4814b33..1a659f21ef 100644
--- a/extended/src/main/java/apoc/ml/OpenAI.java
+++ b/extended/src/main/java/apoc/ml/OpenAI.java
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 import apoc.ApocConfig;
 import apoc.Extended;
 import apoc.result.MapResult;
+import apoc.util.ExtendedMapUtils;
 import apoc.util.ExtendedUtil;
 import apoc.util.JsonUtil;
 import apoc.util.Util;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
-import org.apache.commons.collections.MapUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.neo4j.graphdb.security.URLAccessChecker;
 import org.neo4j.procedure.Context;
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ public Stream<MapResult> completion(@Name("prompt") String prompt, @Name("api_ke
     public Stream<MapResult> chatCompletion(@Name("messages") List<Map<String, Object>> messages, @Name("api_key") String apiKey, @Name(value = "configuration", defaultValue = "{}") Map<String, Object> configuration) throws Exception {
         boolean failOnError = isFailOnError(configuration);
         if (checkNullInput(messages, failOnError)) return Stream.empty();
-        messages = messages.stream().filter(MapUtils::isNotEmpty).toList();
+        messages = messages.stream().filter(ExtendedMapUtils::isNotEmpty).toList();
         if (checkEmptyInput(messages, failOnError)) return Stream.empty();
         configuration.putIfAbsent("model", GPT_4O_MODEL);
         return executeRequest(apiKey, configuration, "chat/completions", (String) configuration.get("model"), "messages", messages, "$", apocConfig, urlAccessChecker)
diff --git a/extended/src/main/java/apoc/util/ExtendedMapUtils.java b/extended/src/main/java/apoc/util/ExtendedMapUtils.java
index c6b388b07d..06b8ce9c6e 100644
--- a/extended/src/main/java/apoc/util/ExtendedMapUtils.java
+++ b/extended/src/main/java/apoc/util/ExtendedMapUtils.java
@@ -11,4 +11,8 @@ public static int size(final Map<?, ?> map) {
     public static boolean isEmpty(final Map<?,?> map) {
         return map == null || map.isEmpty();
     }
+
+    public static boolean isNotEmpty(final Map<?,?> map) {
+        return !isEmpty(map);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/extended/src/test/java/apoc/export/csv/ExportCsvTest.java b/extended/src/test/java/apoc/export/csv/ExportCsvTest.java
index c67f093078..b89c911e70 100644
--- a/extended/src/test/java/apoc/export/csv/ExportCsvTest.java
+++ b/extended/src/test/java/apoc/export/csv/ExportCsvTest.java
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.ClassRule;
-import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
 import org.neo4j.configuration.GraphDatabaseSettings;
@@ -37,7 +36,6 @@
  * @author mh
  * @since 22.05.16
  */
-@Ignore("It fails due to `java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/servlet`")
 public class ExportCsvTest {
     private static final String EXPECTED = String.format("\"_id\",\"_labels\",\"age\",\"city\",\"kids\",\"male\",\"name\",\"street\",\"_start\",\"_end\",\"_type\"%n" +
             "\"0\",\":User:User1\",\"42\",\"\",\"[\"\"a\"\",\"\"b\"\",\"\"c\"\"]\",\"true\",\"foo\",\"\",,,%n" +
diff --git a/extended/src/test/java/apoc/export/parquet/ParquetHdfsTest.java b/extended/src/test/java/apoc/export/parquet/ParquetHdfsTest.java
index 97665e6390..f0b56a99ad 100644
--- a/extended/src/test/java/apoc/export/parquet/ParquetHdfsTest.java
+++ b/extended/src/test/java/apoc/export/parquet/ParquetHdfsTest.java
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.ClassRule;
-import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
 import org.neo4j.configuration.GraphDatabaseSettings;
@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@
 import static apoc.util.TestUtil.testResult;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
-@Ignore("It fails due to `java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/servlet`")
 public class ParquetHdfsTest {
 
     private static final File directory = new File("target/hdfs-parquet-import");
diff --git a/extended/src/test/java/apoc/load/LoadHdfsTest.java b/extended/src/test/java/apoc/load/LoadHdfsTest.java
index 0c6b47714f..72e725cefc 100644
--- a/extended/src/test/java/apoc/load/LoadHdfsTest.java
+++ b/extended/src/test/java/apoc/load/LoadHdfsTest.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.ClassRule;
-import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
@@ -29,7 +28,6 @@
 import static apoc.util.TestUtil.testResult;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
-@Ignore("It fails due to `java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/servlet`")
 public class LoadHdfsTest {
 
     @ClassRule