diff --git a/.github/workflows/mvn-verify-check.yml b/.github/workflows/mvn-verify-check.yml
index 9ce3042ce88..81184557583 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/mvn-verify-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/mvn-verify-check.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 env:
-  COMMON_MVN_FLAGS: >
+  COMMON_MVN_FLAGS: >-
     -Ddist.jar.compress=false
     -DskipTests
     -Dskip
@@ -124,14 +124,22 @@ jobs:
           export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME_8_X64}
           export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
           java -version && mvn --version && echo "ENV JAVA_HOME: $JAVA_HOME, PATH: $PATH"
-          # test command
-          mvn -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=3 -B package \
-            -pl integration_tests,tests -am \
-            -P 'individual,pre-merge' \
-            -Dbuildver=${{ matrix.spark-version }} \
-            -Dmaven.scalastyle.skip=true \
-            -Drat.skip=true \
-            ${{ env.COMMON_MVN_FLAGS }}
+          # test command, will retry for 3 times if failed.
+          max_retry=3; delay=30; i=1
+          while true; do
+            mvn -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=3 \
+              -Dmaven.wagon.httpconnectionManager.ttlSeconds=30 \
+              -Daether.connector.http.connectionMaxTtl=30 -B package \
+              -pl integration_tests,tests -am -P 'individual,pre-merge' \
+              -Dbuildver=${{ matrix.spark-version }} -Dmaven.scalastyle.skip=true \
+              -Drat.skip=true ${{ env.COMMON_MVN_FLAGS }} && break || {
+            if [[ $i -le $max_retry ]]; then
+              echo "mvn command failed. Retry $i/$max_retry."; ((i++)); sleep $delay; ((delay=delay*2))
+            else
+              echo "mvn command failed. Exit 1"; exit 1
+            fi
+          }
+          done
 
   package-tests-scala213:
     needs: get-shim-versions-from-dist
@@ -170,14 +178,22 @@ jobs:
           fi
           # change to Scala 2.13 Directory
           cd scala2.13
-          # test command
-          mvn -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=3 -B package \
-            -pl integration_tests,tests -am \
-            -P 'individual,pre-merge' \
-            -Dbuildver=${{ matrix.spark-version }} \
-            -Dmaven.scalastyle.skip=true \
-            -Drat.skip=true \
-            ${{ env.COMMON_MVN_FLAGS }}
+          # test command, will retry for 3 times if failed.
+          max_retry=3; delay=30; i=1
+          while true; do
+            mvn -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=3 \
+              -Dmaven.wagon.httpconnectionManager.ttlSeconds=30 \
+              -Daether.connector.http.connectionMaxTtl=30 -B package \
+              -pl integration_tests,tests -am -P 'individual,pre-merge' \
+              -Dbuildver=${{ matrix.spark-version }} -Dmaven.scalastyle.skip=true \
+              -Drat.skip=true ${{ env.COMMON_MVN_FLAGS }} && break || {
+            if [[ $i -le $max_retry ]]; then
+              echo "mvn command failed. Retry $i/$max_retry."; ((i++)); sleep $delay; ((delay=delay*2))
+            else
+              echo "mvn command failed. Exit 1"; exit 1
+            fi
+          }
+          done
 
 
   verify-all-modules:
@@ -206,11 +222,21 @@ jobs:
           export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME_${{ matrix.java-version }}_X64}
           export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
           java -version && mvn --version && echo "ENV JAVA_HOME: $JAVA_HOME, PATH: $PATH"
-          # test command
-          mvn -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=3 -B verify \
-            -P "individual,pre-merge" \
-            -Dbuildver=${{ matrix.spark-version }} \
-            ${{ env.COMMON_MVN_FLAGS }}
+          # test command, will retry for 3 times if failed.
+          max_retry=3; delay=30; i=1
+          while true; do
+            mvn -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=$max_retry \
+              -Dmaven.wagon.httpconnectionManager.ttlSeconds=30 \
+              -Daether.connector.http.connectionMaxTtl=30 -B verify \
+              -P "individual,pre-merge" -Dbuildver=${{ matrix.spark-version }} \
+              ${{ env.COMMON_MVN_FLAGS }} && break || {
+            if [[ $i -le $max_retry ]]; then
+              echo "mvn command failed. Retry $i/$max_retry."; ((i++)); sleep $delay; ((delay=delay*2))
+            else
+              echo "mvn command failed. Exit 1"; exit 1
+            fi
+          }
+          done
 
   install-modules:
     needs: get-shim-versions-from-dist
@@ -242,8 +268,19 @@ jobs:
           export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME_11_X64}
           export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
           java -version && mvn --version && echo "ENV JAVA_HOME: $JAVA_HOME, PATH: $PATH"
-          # test command
-          ./mvnw -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=3 -B install \
-            -P "individual,pre-merge" \
-            -Dbuildver=${{ needs.get-shim-versions-from-dist.outputs.defaultSparkVersion }} \
-            ${{ env.COMMON_MVN_FLAGS }}
+          # test command, will retry for 3 times if failed.
+          max_retry=3; delay=30; i=1
+          while true; do
+            ./mvnw -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=3 \
+              -Dmaven.wagon.httpconnectionManager.ttlSeconds=30 \
+              -Daether.connector.http.connectionMaxTtl=30 -B install \
+              -P "individual,pre-merge" \
+              -Dbuildver=${{ needs.get-shim-versions-from-dist.outputs.defaultSparkVersion }} \
+              ${{ env.COMMON_MVN_FLAGS }} && break || {
+            if [[ $i -le $max_retry ]]; then
+              echo "mvn command failed. Retry $i/$max_retry."; ((i++)); sleep $delay; ((delay=delay*2))
+            else
+              echo "mvn command failed. Exit 1"; exit 1
+            fi
+          }
+          done
diff --git a/docs/_config.yml b/docs/_config.yml
index 6551395b0cd..e5bcfdfdc71 100644
--- a/docs/_config.yml
+++ b/docs/_config.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 remote_theme: pmarsceill/just-the-docs
 
 aux_links:
-  "Spark Rapids Plugin on Github":
+  "RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark User Guide":
+    - "//docs.nvidia.com/spark-rapids/user-guide/latest/index.html"
+  "RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark Plugin on Github":
     - "//github.com/nvidia/spark-rapids"
 
 plugins:
diff --git a/docs/compatibility.md b/docs/compatibility.md
index 493d37efd00..8d18d8b57ca 100644
--- a/docs/compatibility.md
+++ b/docs/compatibility.md
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ it and they should be avoided.
 Escaped quote characters `'\"'` are not supported well as described by this
 [issue](https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/129).
 
+The GPU accelerated CSV parser does not replace invalid UTF-8 characters with the Unicode
+replacement character �.  Instead it just passes them through as described in this
+[issue](https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/9560).
+
 ### CSV Dates
 
 Only a limited set of formats are supported when parsing dates.
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 0334ecc5002..724e6b79a82 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ permalink: /
 description: This site serves as a collection of documentation about the RAPIDS accelerator for Apache Spark
 ---
 # Overview
+**If you are a customer looking for information on how to adopt RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark
+for your Spark workloads, please go to our User Guide for more information: [link](https://docs.nvidia.com/spark-rapids/user-guide/latest/index.html).**
+
 The RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark leverages GPUs to accelerate processing via the
 [RAPIDS libraries](http://rapids.ai).
 
@@ -19,5 +22,3 @@ the scale of the Spark distributed computing framework.  The RAPIDS Accelerator
 built-in accelerated shuffle based on [UCX](https://github.com/openucx/ucx/) that can be configured to leverage GPU-to-GPU
 communication and RDMA capabilities.
 
-If you are a customer looking for information on how to adopt RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark
-for your Spark workloads, please go to our User Guide for more information: [link](https://docs.nvidia.com/spark-rapids/user-guide/latest/index.html).