diff --git a/docs/applications/implementations/aggregators.md b/docs/applications/implementations/aggregators.md
index c329992227..611d264690 100644
--- a/docs/applications/implementations/aggregators.md
+++ b/docs/applications/implementations/aggregators.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def aggregate_spark(data, columns, args):
 The following packages have been pre-installed and can be used in your implementations:
 
 ```text
-pyspark==2.4.1
+pyspark==2.4.2
 boto3==1.9.78
 msgpack==0.6.1
 numpy>=1.13.3,<2
diff --git a/docs/applications/implementations/transformers.md b/docs/applications/implementations/transformers.md
index 9c238b426f..64a4ca91af 100644
--- a/docs/applications/implementations/transformers.md
+++ b/docs/applications/implementations/transformers.md
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def reverse_transform_python(transformed_value, args):
 The following packages have been pre-installed and can be used in your implementations:
 
 ```text
-pyspark==2.4.1
+pyspark==2.4.2
 boto3==1.9.78
 msgpack==0.6.1
 numpy>=1.13.3,<2
diff --git a/docs/applications/resources/environments.md b/docs/applications/resources/environments.md
index 8e9f656431..45acd8525a 100644
--- a/docs/applications/resources/environments.md
+++ b/docs/applications/resources/environments.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ data:
 
 #### CSV Config
 
-To help ingest different styles of CSV files, Cortex supports the parameters listed below. All of these parameters are optional. A description and default values for each parameter can be found in the [PySpark CSV Documentation](https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.4.1/api/python/pyspark.sql.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrameReader.csv).
+To help ingest different styles of CSV files, Cortex supports the parameters listed below. All of these parameters are optional. A description and default values for each parameter can be found in the [PySpark CSV Documentation](https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.4.2/api/python/pyspark.sql.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrameReader.csv).
 
 ```yaml
 csv_config:
diff --git a/images/spark-base/Dockerfile b/images/spark-base/Dockerfile
index dca5784f8f..9ff1cd3bf3 100644
--- a/images/spark-base/Dockerfile
+++ b/images/spark-base/Dockerfile
@@ -11,8 +11,12 @@ RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -q \
 RUN mkdir -p /opt
 
 ARG HADOOP_VERSION="2.9.2"
-ARG SPARK_VERSION="2.4.1"
+ARG SPARK_VERSION="2.4.2"
 ARG TF_VERSION="1.12.0"
+# Required for building tensorflow spark connector
+ARG SCALA_VERSION="2.12"
+# Scalatest version from https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v2.4.2/pom.xml
+ARG SCALATEST_VERSION="3.0.3"
 # Check aws-java-sdk-bundle dependency version: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-aws/$HADOOP_VERSION
 ARG AWS_JAVA_SDK_VERSION="1.11.199"
 
@@ -34,7 +38,8 @@ RUN rm -rf ~/tf-ecosystem && git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/ecosystem.g
     mvn -f ~/tf-ecosystem/hadoop/pom.xml versions:set -DnewVersion=${TF_VERSION} -q && \
     mvn -f ~/tf-ecosystem/hadoop/pom.xml -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean install -q && \
     mvn -f ~/tf-ecosystem/spark/spark-tensorflow-connector/pom.xml versions:set -DnewVersion=${TF_VERSION} -q && \
-    mvn -f ~/tf-ecosystem/spark/spark-tensorflow-connector/pom.xml -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean install -Dspark.version=${SPARK_VERSION} -q && \
+    mvn -f ~/tf-ecosystem/spark/spark-tensorflow-connector/pom.xml -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean install \
+        -Dspark.version=${SPARK_VERSION} -Dscala.binary.version=${SCALA_VERSION} -Dscala.test.version=${SCALATEST_VERSION} -q && \
     mv ~/tf-ecosystem/spark/spark-tensorflow-connector/target/spark-tensorflow-connector_2.11-${TF_VERSION}.jar $SPARK_HOME/jars/
 
 # Hadoop AWS
diff --git a/pkg/workloads/lib/package.py b/pkg/workloads/lib/package.py
index b7e228706f..c5eec7fca0 100644
--- a/pkg/workloads/lib/package.py
+++ b/pkg/workloads/lib/package.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def get_build_order(python_packages):
 
 
 def get_restricted_packages():
-    req_list = ["pyspark==2.4.1", "tensorflow==1.12.0"]
+    req_list = ["pyspark==2.4.2", "tensorflow==1.12.0"]
     req_files = glob.glob("/src/**/requirements.txt", recursive=True)
 
     for req_file in req_files: