diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 81afb69b51..739a29436b 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -78,6 +78,6 @@ repos:
 
 # this validates our github workflow files
 - repo: https://github.com/python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema
-  rev: 0.29.4
+  rev: 0.30.0
   hooks:
     - id: check-github-workflows
diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3589.fixed.md b/doc/changelog.d/3589.fixed.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bc7f39a54b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3589.fixed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fix: linkchecker and cheatsheet links
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3590.miscellaneous.md b/doc/changelog.d/3590.miscellaneous.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..913c469727
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3590.miscellaneous.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+feat: improving load_array to reduce format line length
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3593.dependencies.md b/doc/changelog.d/3593.dependencies.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..89ae38f55a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3593.dependencies.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+build: bump imageio from 2.36.0 to 2.36.1 in the documentation group
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3596.miscellaneous.md b/doc/changelog.d/3596.miscellaneous.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c39f8cea4f..0000000000
--- a/doc/changelog.d/3596.miscellaneous.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-feat: redirect MAPDL console output to a file
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3599.maintenance.md b/doc/changelog.d/3599.maintenance.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..23264207b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3599.maintenance.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ci: pre-commit autoupdate
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 235c3db45b..d6b87ea018 100755
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
 with open("links.rst") as f:
     rst_epilog += f.read()
 
-rst_epilog = rst_epilog.replace("%%VERSION%%", "v231")
+rst_epilog = rst_epilog.replace("%%VERSION%%", "v242")
 rst_epilog = rst_epilog.replace("%%PYMAPDLVERSION%%", release)
 
 
@@ -219,8 +219,10 @@
 linkcheck_ignore = [
     "https://github.com/ansys/pymapdl/*",
     "https://mapdl.docs.pyansys.com/*",
-    "https://ansysaccount.b2clogin.com/*",  # behind payfirewall
-    "https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/*",  # behind payfirewall
+    "https://www.ansys.com/*",  # behind firewall
+    "https://download.ansys.com/*",  # behind firewall
+    "https://ansysaccount.b2clogin.com/*",  # behind authentication
+    "https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/*",  # behind authentication
     "https://forum.ansys.com/forums/*",  # It is detected as broken
     "https://courses.ansys.com/*",  # It is detected as broken
 ]
@@ -239,7 +241,7 @@
         f"https://github.com/ansys/pymapdl/releases/tag/v{__version__}"
     )
 
-user_agent = """curl https://www.ansys.com -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.3"""
+user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/123.0.2420.81"  # noqa: E501
 
 # The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
 pygments_style = "sphinx"
diff --git a/doc/source/getting_started/learning.rst b/doc/source/getting_started/learning.rst
index 5ab22e88b3..4e11737715 100644
--- a/doc/source/getting_started/learning.rst
+++ b/doc/source/getting_started/learning.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Downloads
 
 .. jinja:: cheat_sheet
   
-  - View and download :download:`PyMAPDL cheatsheet <https://mapdl.docs.ansys.com/version/{{ version }}/_static/cheatsheet.pdf>`
+  - View and download :download:`PyMAPDL cheatsheet <https://github.com/ansys/pymapdl/blob/gh-pages/version/{{ version }}/_static/cheat_sheet.pdf>`  
     to help you to learn PyMAPDL.
 
 - Visit :ref:`ref_examples` to learn how PyMAPDL can be used to solve different real problems.
diff --git a/doc/source/getting_started/project.rst b/doc/source/getting_started/project.rst
index 9bf7d7d202..e0d7a29554 100644
--- a/doc/source/getting_started/project.rst
+++ b/doc/source/getting_started/project.rst
@@ -174,8 +174,9 @@ In the upper right corner of the documentation's title bar, there is an option f
 viewing the documentation for the latest stable release to viewing the documentation for the
 development version or previously released versions.
 
-You can also `download <pymapdl_cheat_sheet>`_ the PyMAPDL cheat sheet. This one-page reference provides
-syntax rules and commands for using PyMAPDL. 
+You can also download the
+:download:`PyMAPDL cheat sheet <https://github.com/ansys/pymapdl/blob/gh-pages/version/{{ version }}/_static/cheat_sheet.pdf>`.
+This one-page reference provides syntax rules and commands for using PyMAPDL. 
 
 On the `PyMAPDL Issues <https://github.com/ansys/pymapdl/issues>`_ page,
 you can create issues to report bugs and request new features. On the `PyMAPDL Discussions
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 981ba88736..adb4399bc5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ doc = [
     "ansys-tools-visualization-interface==0.5.0",
     "grpcio==1.68.0",
     "imageio-ffmpeg==0.5.1",
-    "imageio==2.36.0",
+    "imageio==2.36.1",
     "jupyter_sphinx==0.5.3",
     "jupyter==1.1.1",
     "jupyterlab>=3.2.8",
diff --git a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/launcher.py b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/launcher.py
index 83b4dc9ce9..650ba4a252 100644
--- a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/launcher.py
+++ b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/launcher.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 import subprocess  # nosec B404
 import threading
 import time
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Union
 import warnings
 
 import psutil
@@ -115,7 +115,6 @@ def version_from_path(*args, **kwargs):
     "license_type",
     "log_apdl",
     "loglevel",
-    "mapdl_output",
     "mode",
     "nproc",
     "override",
@@ -438,7 +437,6 @@ def launch_grpc(
     run_location: str = None,
     env_vars: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
     launch_on_hpc: bool = False,
-    mapdl_output: Optional[str] = None,
 ) -> subprocess.Popen:
     """Start MAPDL locally in gRPC mode.
 
@@ -458,9 +456,6 @@ def launch_grpc(
         If running on an HPC, this needs to be :class:`True` to avoid the
         temporary file creation on Windows.
 
-    mapdl_output : str, optional
-        Whether redirect MAPDL console output (stdout and stderr) to a file.
-
     Returns
     -------
     subprocess.Popen
@@ -492,13 +487,6 @@ def launch_grpc(
         "\n============"
     )
 
-    if mapdl_output:
-        stdout = open(str(mapdl_output), "wb", 0)
-        stderr = subprocess.STDOUT
-    else:
-        stdout = subprocess.PIPE
-        stderr = subprocess.PIPE
-
     if os.name == "nt":
         # getting tmp file name
         if not launch_on_hpc:
@@ -517,8 +505,8 @@ def launch_grpc(
         shell=shell,  # sbatch does not work without shell.
         cwd=run_location,
         stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-        stdout=stdout,
-        stderr=stderr,
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
         env_vars=env_vars,
     )
 
@@ -566,7 +554,7 @@ def check_mapdl_launch(
 
         if os.name == "posix" and not ON_WSL:
             LOG.debug("Checking if gRPC server is alive.")
-            _check_server_is_alive(stdout_queue, timeout)
+            _check_server_is_alive(stdout_queue, run_location, timeout)
 
     except MapdlDidNotStart as e:  # pragma: no cover
         msg = (
@@ -608,11 +596,7 @@ def _check_file_error_created(run_location, timeout):
         raise MapdlDidNotStart(msg)
 
 
-def _check_server_is_alive(stdout_queue, timeout):
-    if not stdout_queue:
-        LOG.debug("No STDOUT queue. Not checking MAPDL this way.")
-        return
-
+def _check_server_is_alive(stdout_queue, run_location, timeout):
     t0 = time.time()
     empty_attemps = 3
     empty_i = 0
@@ -645,9 +629,6 @@ def _check_server_is_alive(stdout_queue, timeout):
 
 
 def _get_std_output(std_queue, timeout=1):
-    if not std_queue:
-        return [None]
-
     lines = []
     reach_empty = False
     t0 = time.time()
@@ -661,15 +642,10 @@ def _get_std_output(std_queue, timeout=1):
     return lines
 
 
-def _create_queue_for_std(
-    std: subprocess.PIPE,
-) -> Tuple[Optional[Queue[str]], Optional[threading.Thread]]:
+def _create_queue_for_std(std):
     """Create a queue and thread objects for a given PIPE std"""
-    if not std:
-        LOG.debug("No STDOUT. Not checking MAPDL this way.")
-        return None, None
 
-    def enqueue_output(out: subprocess.PIPE, queue: Queue[str]) -> None:
+    def enqueue_output(out, queue):
         try:
             for line in iter(out.readline, b""):
                 queue.put(line)
@@ -679,8 +655,8 @@ def enqueue_output(out: subprocess.PIPE, queue: Queue[str]) -> None:
             # ValueError: PyMemoryView_FromBuffer(): info -> buf must not be NULL
             pass
 
-    q: Queue[str] = Queue()
-    t: threading.Thread = threading.Thread(target=enqueue_output, args=(std, q))
+    q = Queue()
+    t = threading.Thread(target=enqueue_output, args=(std, q))
     t.daemon = True  # thread dies with the program
     t.start()
 
@@ -688,7 +664,7 @@ def enqueue_output(out: subprocess.PIPE, queue: Queue[str]) -> None:
 
 
 def launch_remote_mapdl(
-    version: Optional[str] = None,
+    version: str = None,
     cleanup_on_exit: bool = True,
 ) -> MapdlGrpc:
     """Start MAPDL remotely using the product instance management API.
@@ -1044,7 +1020,6 @@ def launch_mapdl(
     version: Optional[Union[int, str]] = None,
     running_on_hpc: bool = True,
     launch_on_hpc: bool = False,
-    mapdl_output: Optional[str] = None,
     **kwargs: Dict[str, Any],
 ) -> Union[MapdlGrpc, "MapdlConsole"]:
     """Start MAPDL locally.
@@ -1230,9 +1205,6 @@ def launch_mapdl(
         to specify the scheduler arguments as a string or as a dictionary.
         For more information, see :ref:`ref_hpc_slurm`.
 
-    mapdl_output : str, optional
-        Redirect the MAPDL console output to a given file.
-
     kwargs : dict, Optional
         These keyword arguments are interface-specific or for
         development purposes. For more information, see Notes.
@@ -1603,7 +1575,6 @@ def launch_mapdl(
                 run_location=args["run_location"],
                 env_vars=env_vars,
                 launch_on_hpc=args.get("launch_on_hpc"),
-                mapdl_output=args.get("mapdl_output"),
             )
 
             if args["launch_on_hpc"]:
diff --git a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_extended.py b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_extended.py
index 94f2808fd4..a12ba23392 100644
--- a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_extended.py
+++ b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_extended.py
@@ -2314,7 +2314,7 @@ def load_array(self, name, array):
         np.savetxt(
             filename,
             array,
-            delimiter=",",
+            delimiter="",
             header="File generated by PyMAPDL:load_array",
             fmt="%24.18e",
         )
@@ -2329,7 +2329,7 @@ def load_array(self, name, array):
             n2 = imax
             n3 = kmax
             self.vread(name, filename, n1=n1, n2=n2, n3=n3, label=label, nskip=1)
-            fmt = "(" + ",',',".join(["E24.18" for i in range(jmax)]) + ")"
+            fmt = f"({jmax}E24.18)"
             logger.info("Using *VREAD with format %s in %s", fmt, filename)
             self.run(fmt)
 
diff --git a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
index a3fe1caa54..a15982ce12 100644
--- a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
+++ b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl_grpc.py
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ def _read_stds(self):
             _get_std_output,  # Avoid circular import error
         )
 
-        if self._mapdl_process is None or not self._mapdl_process.stdout:
+        if self._mapdl_process is None:
             return
 
         self._log.debug("Reading stdout")
@@ -2691,7 +2691,7 @@ def _download_as_raw(self, target_name: str) -> str:
     @property
     def is_alive(self) -> bool:
         """True when there is an active connect to the gRPC server"""
-        if self.channel_state not in ["IDLE", "READY", None]:
+        if self.channel_state not in ["IDLE", "READY"]:
             self._log.debug(
                 "MAPDL instance is not alive because the channel is not 'IDLE' o 'READY'."
             )
diff --git a/tests/test_launcher.py b/tests/test_launcher.py
index 764d838250..806676eb7c 100644
--- a/tests/test_launcher.py
+++ b/tests/test_launcher.py
@@ -1977,4 +1977,4 @@ def submitter(**kwargs):
     assert "### START GRPC SERVER      ###" in content
     assert " Server listening on" in content
 
-    mapdl.exit()
+    mapdl.exit(force=True)
diff --git a/tests/test_parameters.py b/tests/test_parameters.py
index fa6cda4de6..417c6389cd 100644
--- a/tests/test_parameters.py
+++ b/tests/test_parameters.py
@@ -134,11 +134,20 @@ def test__get_parameter_array(mapdl, cleared, number):
     assert np.allclose(array, mapdl.parameters._get_parameter_array(name, shape))
 
     # High number
-    with pytest.raises(MapdlRuntimeError):
-        shape = (100, 100)
-        array = np.ones(shape) * number
-        mapdl.load_array(name=name, array=array)
-        mapdl.parameters._get_parameter_array(name, shape)
+    shape = (100, 100)
+    array = np.ones(shape) * number
+    mapdl.load_array(name=name, array=array)
+    assert np.allclose(array, mapdl.parameters._get_parameter_array(name, shape))
+
+    # Random number
+    array = np.random.rand(*shape)
+    mapdl.load_array(name=name, array=array)
+    assert np.allclose(array, mapdl.parameters._get_parameter_array(name, shape))
+
+    # Random big number
+    array = np.random.rand(*shape) * number
+    mapdl.load_array(name=name, array=array)
+    assert np.allclose(array, mapdl.parameters._get_parameter_array(name, shape))
 
 
 def parameters_name(mapdl, func, par_name):