diff --git a/.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml b/.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml
index ae18b5447550..bb074949e29e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ jobs:
   doc-validator:
     runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
     container:
-      image: "grafana/doc-validator:v4.0.0"
+      image: "grafana/doc-validator:v5.0.0"
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout code"
-        uses: "actions/checkout@v3"
+        uses: "actions/checkout@v4"
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - name: "Run doc-validator"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-technical-documentation-next.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-technical-documentation-next.yml
index 052ec1b07158..afa567aa5cd9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-technical-documentation-next.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-technical-documentation-next.yml
@@ -8,24 +8,12 @@ on:
       - "docs/sources/**"
   workflow_dispatch:
 jobs:
-  test:
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
-    steps:
-      - name: "Check out code"
-        uses: "actions/checkout@v3"
-      - name: "Build website"
-        # -e HUGO_REFLINKSERRORLEVEL=ERROR prevents merging broken refs with the downside
-        # that no refs to external content can be used as these refs will not resolve in the
-        # docs-base image.
-        run: |
-          docker run -v ${PWD}/docs/sources:/hugo/content/docs/loki/next -e HUGO_REFLINKSERRORLEVEL=ERROR --rm grafana/docs-base:latest /bin/bash -c 'make hugo'
-
   sync:
     runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
     needs: "test"
     steps:
       - name: "Check out code"
-        uses: "actions/checkout@v3"
+        uses: "actions/checkout@v4"
 
       - name: "Clone website-sync Action"
         # WEBSITE_SYNC_TOKEN is a fine-grained GitHub Personal Access Token that expires.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-technical-documentation-release.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-technical-documentation-release.yml
index 02e13270b924..046cb6574e7b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-technical-documentation-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-technical-documentation-release.yml
@@ -10,30 +10,17 @@ on:
       - "docs/sources/**"
   workflow_dispatch:
 jobs:
-  test:
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
-    steps:
-      - name: "Check out code"
-        uses: "actions/checkout@v3"
-      - name:
-          "Build website"
-          # -e HUGO_REFLINKSERRORLEVEL=ERROR prevents merging broken refs with the downside
-          # that no refs to external content can be used as these refs will not resolve in the
-          # docs-base image.
-        run: |
-          docker run -v ${PWD}/docs/sources:/hugo/content/docs/loki/release -e HUGO_REFLINKSERRORLEVEL=ERROR --rm grafana/docs-base:latest /bin/bash -c 'make hugo'
-
   sync:
     runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
     needs: "test"
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout code and tags"
-        uses: "actions/checkout@v3"
+        uses: "actions/checkout@v4"
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: "Checkout Actions library"
-        uses: "actions/checkout@v3"
+        uses: "actions/checkout@v4"
         with:
           repository: "grafana/grafana-github-actions"
           path: "./actions"