diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 671da8bc..f950fa31 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ lazy val core = (project in file("core")) // regular scala code with @native met
     javaOptions ++= Seq("-Xms512M", "-Xmx2048M", "-Djna.nosys=true"),
     Test / javaOptions ++= specialOptions,
     // 2.4.5 is the highest version we have with the old spark-testing-base deps
-    sparkVersion := System.getProperty("sparkVersion", "3.3.0"),
-    sparkTestingVersion := "1.4.0",
+    sparkVersion := System.getProperty("sparkVersion", "3.5.0"),
+    sparkTestingVersion := "1.4.7",
     // additional libraries
     libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
       "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core"                % sparkVersion.value,
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/com/high-performance-spark-examples/mllib/GoldilocksMLlib.scala b/core/src/main/scala/com/high-performance-spark-examples/mllib/GoldilocksMLlib.scala
index cde64c75..f57b4694 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/com/high-performance-spark-examples/mllib/GoldilocksMLlib.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/com/high-performance-spark-examples/mllib/GoldilocksMLlib.scala
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.{Vector => SparkVector}
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
 
-import com.github.fommil.netlib.BLAS.{getInstance => blas}
 import com.highperformancespark.examples.dataframe._
 //end::imports[]
 
@@ -97,42 +96,6 @@ object GoldilocksMLlib {
   }
   //end::trainScaler[]
 
-  //tag::word2vecSimple[]
-  def word2vec(sc: SparkContext, rdd: RDD[String]): RDD[SparkVector] = {
-    // Tokenize our data
-    val tokenized = rdd.map(_.split(" ").toIterable)
-    // Construct our word2vec model
-    val wv = new Word2Vec()
-    val wvm = wv.fit(tokenized)
-    val wvmb = sc.broadcast(wvm)
-    // WVM can now transform single words
-    println(wvm.transform("panda"))
-    // Vector size is 100 - we use this to build a transformer on top of WVM that
-    // works on sentences.
-    val vectorSize = 100
-    // The transform function works on a per-word basis, but we have
-    // sentences as input.
-    tokenized.map{words =>
-      // If there is nothing in the sentence output a null vector
-      if (words.isEmpty) {
-        Vectors.sparse(vectorSize, Array.empty[Int], Array.empty[Double])
-      } else {
-        // If there are sentences construct a running sum of the
-        // vectors for each word
-        val sum = Array[Double](vectorSize)
-        words.foreach { word =>
-          blas.daxpy(
-            vectorSize, 1.0, wvmb.value.transform(word).toArray, 1, sum, 1)
-        }
-        // Then scale it by the number of words
-        blas.dscal(sum.length, 1.0 / words.size, sum, 1)
-        // And wrap it in a Spark vector
-        Vectors.dense(sum)
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  //end::word2vecSimple[]
-
   //tag::hashingTFPreserve[]
   def toVectorPerserving(rdd: RDD[RawPanda]): RDD[(RawPanda, SparkVector)] = {
     val ht = new HashingTF()
diff --git a/env_setup.sh b/env_setup.sh
index a79213e3..34fa4279 100644
--- a/env_setup.sh
+++ b/env_setup.sh
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 
 # Download Spark and iceberg if not present
 SPARK_MAJOR=${SPARK_MAJOR:-"3.4"}
-SPARK_VERSION=${SPARK_VERSION:-"3.4.1"}
+SPARK_VERSION=${SPARK_VERSION:-"3.5.0"}
 SCALA_VERSION=${SCALA_VERSION:-"2.12"}
 HADOOP_VERSION="3"
 SPARK_PATH="spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop${HADOOP_VERSION}"
 SPARK_FILE="spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop3.tgz"
-ICEBERG_VERSION=${ICEBERG_VERSION:-"1.3.1"}
+ICEBERG_VERSION=${ICEBERG_VERSION:-"1.4.0"}
 if [ ! -f "${SPARK_FILE}" ]; then
   wget "https://dlcdn.apache.org/spark/spark-${SPARK_VERSION}/${SPARK_FILE}" &
 fi
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ fi
 export SPARK_HOME="${SPARK_PATH}"
 
 if [ ! -f "${SPARK_PATH}/jars/${ICEBERG_FILE}" ]; then
+  # Delete the old JAR first.
+  rm "${SPARK_PATH}/jars/iceberg-spark-runtime*.jar" || echo "No old version to delete."
   cp "${ICEBERG_FILE}" "${SPARK_PATH}/jars/${ICEBERG_FILE}"
 fi