diff --git a/.github/actions/install-ubuntu-default-tools/action.yml b/.github/actions/install-ubuntu-default-tools/action.yml
index 4662e6ad8..9c0d719a2 100644
--- a/.github/actions/install-ubuntu-default-tools/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/install-ubuntu-default-tools/action.yml
@@ -1,30 +1,35 @@
 name: "Install Ubuntu default tools"
-description: "Install common Ubuntu tools (e.g.: docker, git, zip, unzip, python3)"
+description: "Install common Ubuntu tools (e.g.: docker, git, zip, unzip)"
 inputs:
   packages:
     description: "The list of package names to be installed separated by a whitespace"
     required: false
+  sudo:
+    description: "Whether to use sudo or not"
+    required: false
+    default: "true"
 runs:
   using: composite
   steps:
     - name: "Install common tools"
       shell: bash
       run: |
+        if [ "${{ inputs.sudo }}" = "true" ]; then
+          SUDO="sudo"
+        else
+          SUDO=""
+        fi
+
+        $SUDO apt-get update
+        $SUDO apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg git zip unzip ${{ inputs.packages }}
+
         # Install Docker as per https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
-        apt-get update
-        apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg -y
-        install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
-        curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
-        chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+        $SUDO install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
+        curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | $SUDO gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+        $SUDO chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
         echo \
           "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
           "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \
-          tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
-        apt-get update
-        # Additionally install git, zip and unzip, python3
-        apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin git zip unzip python3 python3-pip ${{ inputs.packages }} -y
-        # Allow usage of "docker-compose" rather than "docker compose" in bash scripts
-        ln -f -s /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
-        # Workaround due to $HOME not being set causing issues with settings.xml installation in setup-build-java
-        mkdir -p /root/.m2
-        cp .ci.settings.xml /root/.m2/settings.xml
+          $SUDO tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
+        $SUDO apt-get update
+        $SUDO apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 9926a8891..7eb4d2795 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.6.0
+    rev: v5.0.0
     hooks:
       - id: check-yaml
         args: [--allow-multiple-documents]
@@ -13,17 +13,17 @@ repos:
         args: ['--fix=lf']
         exclude: .github/actions/send-slack-notification/tests/sample-commit-message.txt
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
-        exclude: '.github/actions/dispatch-resume-workflow/dist/*'
+        exclude: '.*/dist/.*'
       - id: trailing-whitespace
-        exclude: .github/actions/dispatch-resume-workflow/dist/*
+        exclude: '.*/dist/.*'
   - repo: https://github.com/sirosen/check-jsonschema
-    rev: 0.28.5
+    rev: 0.31.0
     hooks:
       - id: check-dependabot
       - id: check-github-actions
       - id: check-github-workflows
   - repo: https://github.com/igorshubovych/markdownlint-cli
-    rev: v0.41.0
+    rev: v0.43.0
     hooks:
     - id: markdownlint
   - repo: local
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index a44bcea92..e25057e45 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Here follows the list of GitHub Actions topics available in the current document
     - [load-release-descriptor](#load-release-descriptor)
     - [maven-build-and-tag](#maven-build-and-tag)
       - [Preview option for maven-build-and-tag](#preview-option-for-maven-build-and-tag)
+      - [Option to skip tests for maven-build-and-tag](#option-to-skip-tests-for-maven-build-and-tag)
     - [maven-deploy-file](#maven-deploy-file)
     - [maven-release](#maven-release)
     - [maven-update-pom-version](#maven-update-pom-version)
@@ -936,12 +937,13 @@ Installs and cache ansible galaxy dependencies. When `pipenv` binary exists, ins
 
 ### install-ubuntu-default-tools
 
-Install common Ubuntu tools such as docker, git, zip, unzip, python3. Meant to be used on top of self-hosted runners with vanilla ubuntu images.
+Install common Ubuntu tools such as docker, git, zip, unzip. Meant to be used on
+top of self-hosted runners coming with vanilla ubuntu images or the latest arm64 runners.
 
 ```yaml
       - uses: Alfresco/alfresco-build-tools/.github/actions/install-ubuntu-default-tools@ref
         with:
-          package-names-list: "postgresql-client"
+          package-names-list: "postgresql-client" # optional packages to install
 ```
 
 ### jx-updatebot-pr
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index ad8f8733d..6fe100505 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v8.9.1
+v8.10.0