diff --git a/bosh-stemcell/spec/assets/dpkg-list-ubuntu-azure-additions.txt b/bosh-stemcell/spec/assets/dpkg-list-ubuntu-azure-additions.txt
index 826f382eb1..5738a635bc 100644
--- a/bosh-stemcell/spec/assets/dpkg-list-ubuntu-azure-additions.txt
+++ b/bosh-stemcell/spec/assets/dpkg-list-ubuntu-azure-additions.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 azure-vm-utils
 cloud-init
-linux-cloud-tools-6.8
-linux-cloud-tools-6.8-generic
+cloud-init-base
+libjs-sphinxdoc
+linux-cloud-tools-7.0
+linux-cloud-tools-7.0-generic
 linux-cloud-tools-common
 linux-cloud-tools-generic
 netplan.io
@@ -16,10 +18,12 @@ python3-jinja2
 python3-json-pointer
 python3-jsonpatch
 python3-jsonschema
+python3-jsonschema-specifications
 python3-markupsafe
+python3-passlib
 python3-pyasn1
-python3-pyrsistent:amd64
+python3-referencing
 python3-requests
+python3-rpds-py
 python3-serial
-python3-setuptools
 python3-urllib3
diff --git a/bosh-stemcell/spec/assets/dpkg-list-ubuntu.txt b/bosh-stemcell/spec/assets/dpkg-list-ubuntu.txt
index 4a3135842b..68338916e9 100644
--- a/bosh-stemcell/spec/assets/dpkg-list-ubuntu.txt
+++ b/bosh-stemcell/spec/assets/dpkg-list-ubuntu.txt
@@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ python3-pkg-resources
 python3-pygments
 python3-pyparsing
 python3-rich
-python3-setuptools
 python3-software-properties
 python3-typeguard
 python3-typing-extensions
diff --git a/bosh-stemcell/spec/stemcells/alicloud_spec.rb b/bosh-stemcell/spec/stemcells/alicloud_spec.rb
index f1002ca0dc..6a161b8a5f 100644
--- a/bosh-stemcell/spec/stemcells/alicloud_spec.rb
+++ b/bosh-stemcell/spec/stemcells/alicloud_spec.rb
@@ -16,12 +16,4 @@
       its(:content) { should match(/^PasswordAuthentication no$/) }
     end
   end
-
-  context "ext4 filesystems" do
-    describe "should not contain ext4 feature metadata_csum" do
-      subject { file("/etc/mke2fs.conf") }
-
-      its(:content) { should_not match(/metadata_csum/) }
-    end
-  end
 end
diff --git a/stemcell_builder/stages/system_alicloud/apply.sh b/stemcell_builder/stages/system_alicloud/apply.sh
index d6a4ad7d2b..a214eeaf9d 100755
--- a/stemcell_builder/stages/system_alicloud/apply.sh
+++ b/stemcell_builder/stages/system_alicloud/apply.sh
@@ -4,8 +4,3 @@ set -e
 
 base_dir=$(readlink -nf $(dirname $0)/../..)
 source $base_dir/lib/prelude_apply.bash
-
-# Alicloud does not support ext4 feature 'metadata_csum'.
-# Remove it from root image and also disable it inside image for all ext4 filesystems created afterwards.
-sed -i "s/metadata_csum,//g" /etc/mke2fs.conf
-sed -i "s/metadata_csum,//g" $chroot/etc/mke2fs.conf