diff --git a/.github/workflows/.scripts/update-notice-year.js b/.github/workflows/.scripts/update-notice-year.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2fbb6b7b82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/.scripts/update-notice-year.js
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+/**
+ * @typedef {import('@octokit/rest').Octokit} Octokit
+ * @typedef {import('@actions/github')['context']} Context
+ */
+
+module.exports = async function updateNoticeYear(
+  /** @type {{ octokit: Octokit, context: Context }} */
+  { octokit, context }
+) {
+  const now = new Date()
+  // Change to UTC+8
+  now.setHours(now.getHours() + 8)
+  const newYear = now.getFullYear()
+  console.log('Prepare to update notice year to', newYear)
+
+  const noticeContent = `Apache ECharts
+Copyright 2017-${newYear} The Apache Software Foundation
+
+This product includes software developed at
+The Apache Software Foundation (https://www.apache.org/).`
+
+  const repoCtx = context.repo
+
+  const repoInfo = (await octokit.rest.repos.get(repoCtx)).data
+  const defaultBranchName = repoInfo.default_branch
+  const remoteNoticeFile = (await octokit.rest.repos.getContent({
+    ...repoCtx,
+    path: 'NOTICE',
+    ref: defaultBranchName
+  })).data
+  const remoteNoticeContent = base64ToUtf8(remoteNoticeFile.content)
+  if (remoteNoticeContent === noticeContent) {
+    console.log('NOTICE year is already updated.')
+    return
+  }
+
+  console.log('Ready to update the NOTICE file:\n' + noticeContent)
+
+  const defaultBranch = (await octokit.rest.repos.getBranch({
+    ...repoCtx,
+    branch: defaultBranchName
+  })).data
+
+  const newBranchName = `bot/update-notice-year/${newYear}`
+  await octokit.rest.git.createRef({
+    ...repoCtx,
+    ref: `refs/heads/${newBranchName}`,
+    sha: defaultBranch.commit.sha
+  })
+  console.log('Created a new branch:', newBranchName)
+
+  await octokit.rest.repos.createOrUpdateFileContents({
+    ...repoCtx,
+    path: 'NOTICE',
+    message: `chore: update NOTICE year to ${newYear}`,
+    content: utf8ToBase64(noticeContent),
+    sha: remoteNoticeFile.sha,
+    branch: newBranchName
+  })
+
+  console.log('Updated the NOTICE file on the new branch')
+
+  const pr = (await octokit.rest.pulls.create({
+    ...repoCtx,
+    head: newBranchName,
+    base: defaultBranchName,
+    maintainer_can_modify: true,
+    title: `chore: update NOTICE year to ${newYear}`,
+    body: `## Brief Information
+
+This pull request is in the type of:
+
+- [ ] bug fixing
+- [ ] new feature
+- [x] others
+
+### What does this PR do?
+
+Update notice year to ${newYear}. 💖
+
+Happy new year! 祝大家新年快乐！🎇`
+  })).data
+
+  console.log(`Opened PR #${pr.number} for updating the NOTICE file`)
+}
+
+function utf8ToBase64(data) {
+  return Buffer.from(data, 'utf-8').toString('base64')
+}
+
+function base64ToUtf8(data) {
+  return Buffer.from(data, 'base64').toString('utf-8')
+}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index d11e9faa6e..0a15bd6348 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           echo "FETCH_DEPTH=$(($PR_COMMIT_COUNT + 1))" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: ${{ env.FETCH_DEPTH }}
 
       - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
 
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ jobs:
         node-version: [18.x]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly-next.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly-next.yml
index bf40c6e71e..1de3715395 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly-next.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly-next.yml
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ jobs:
         node-version: [18.x]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: next
 
       - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
index 085b80d306..cf65881730 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ jobs:
         node-version: [18.x]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/source-release.yml b/.github/workflows/source-release.yml
index eab4413df9..5719131170 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/source-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/source-release.yml
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ jobs:
         node-version: [18.x]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
 
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ jobs:
         node-version: [18.x]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-notice-year.yml b/.github/workflows/update-notice-year.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8aa325327b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/update-notice-year.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: Update NOTICE year
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # 1/1 00:00 UTC+8
+    - cron: '0 16 31 12 *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  update-notice-year:
+    if: ${{ github.repository_owner == 'apache' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          sparse-checkout: |
+            .github/workflows/.scripts
+
+      - uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const updateNoticeYear = require('.github/workflows/.scripts/update-notice-year.js')
+            await updateNoticeYear({ octokit: github, context })
diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
index 0877faab81..6f7322151d 100644
--- a/NOTICE
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Apache ECharts
-Copyright 2017-2023 The Apache Software Foundation
+Copyright 2017-2024 The Apache Software Foundation
 
 This product includes software developed at
-The Apache Software Foundation (https://www.apache.org/).
+The Apache Software Foundation (https://www.apache.org/).
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build/config.js b/build/config.js
index 092f7b23a5..9d639e476d 100644
--- a/build/config.js
+++ b/build/config.js
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ exports.createECharts = function (opt = {}) {
             opt,
             {
                 name: 'echarts',
-                // Ignore default exports, which is only for compitable code like:
+                // Ignore default exports, which is only for compatible code like:
                 // import echarts from 'echarts/lib/echarts';
                 exports: 'named',
                 format: format
diff --git a/build/pre-publish.js b/build/pre-publish.js
index 6975c2744b..cd99e65793 100644
--- a/build/pre-publish.js
+++ b/build/pre-publish.js
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 /**
  * [Create CommonJS files]:
- * Compatible with prevoius folder structure: `echarts/lib` exists in `node_modules`
+ * Compatible with previous folder structure: `echarts/lib` exists in `node_modules`
  * (1) Build all files to CommonJS to `echarts/lib`.
  * (2) Remove __DEV__.
  * (3) Mount `echarts/src/export.js` to `echarts/lib/echarts.js`.
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ const compileWorkList = [
             module: 'ES2015',
             rootDir: ecDir,
             outDir: tmpDir,
-            // Generate types when buidling esm
+            // Generate types when building esm
             declaration: true,
             declarationDir: typesDir
         },
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ module.exports = async function () {
 };
 
 async function runTsCompile(localTs, compilerOptions, srcPathList) {
-    // Must do it. becuase the value in tsconfig.json might be different from the inner representation.
+    // Must do it, because the value in tsconfig.json might be different from the inner representation.
     // For example: moduleResolution: "NODE" => moduleResolution: 2
     const {options, errors} = localTs.convertCompilerOptionsFromJson(compilerOptions, ecDir);
 
diff --git a/src/component/axis/AxisBuilder.ts b/src/component/axis/AxisBuilder.ts
index c7b48dcafd..1644d50246 100644
--- a/src/component/axis/AxisBuilder.ts
+++ b/src/component/axis/AxisBuilder.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
 * under the License.
 */
 
-import {retrieve, defaults, extend, each, isObject, map, isString, isNumber, isFunction} from 'zrender/src/core/util';
+import {
+    retrieve, defaults, extend, each, isObject, map, isString, isNumber, isFunction, retrieve2
+} from 'zrender/src/core/util';
 import * as graphic from '../../util/graphic';
 import {getECData} from '../../util/innerStore';
 import {createTextStyle} from '../../label/labelStyle';
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ export interface AxisBuilderCfg {
     tickDirection?: number
     labelDirection?: number
     /**
-     * Usefull when onZero.
+     * Useful when onZero.
      */
     labelOffset?: number
     /**
@@ -776,6 +778,29 @@ function buildAxisLabel(
 
         const tickCoord = axis.dataToCoord(tickValue);
 
+        const align = itemLabelModel.getShallow('align', true)
+            || labelLayout.textAlign;
+        const alignMin = retrieve2(
+            itemLabelModel.getShallow('alignMinLabel', true),
+            align
+        );
+        const alignMax = retrieve2(
+            itemLabelModel.getShallow('alignMaxLabel', true),
+            align
+        );
+
+        const verticalAlign = itemLabelModel.getShallow('verticalAlign', true)
+            || itemLabelModel.getShallow('baseline', true)
+            || labelLayout.textVerticalAlign;
+        const verticalAlignMin = retrieve2(
+            itemLabelModel.getShallow('verticalAlignMinLabel', true),
+            verticalAlign
+        );
+        const verticalAlignMax = retrieve2(
+            itemLabelModel.getShallow('verticalAlignMaxLabel', true),
+            verticalAlign
+        );
+
         const textEl = new graphic.Text({
             x: tickCoord,
             y: opt.labelOffset + opt.labelDirection * labelMargin,
@@ -784,11 +809,12 @@ function buildAxisLabel(
             z2: 10 + (labelItem.level || 0),
             style: createTextStyle(itemLabelModel, {
                 text: formattedLabel,
-                align: itemLabelModel.getShallow('align', true)
-                    || labelLayout.textAlign,
-                verticalAlign: itemLabelModel.getShallow('verticalAlign', true)
-                    || itemLabelModel.getShallow('baseline', true)
-                    || labelLayout.textVerticalAlign,
+                align: index === 0
+                    ? alignMin
+                    : index === labels.length - 1 ? alignMax : align,
+                verticalAlign: index === 0
+                    ? verticalAlignMin
+                    : index === labels.length - 1 ? verticalAlignMax : verticalAlign,
                 fill: isFunction(textColor)
                     ? textColor(
                         // (1) In category axis with data zoom, tick is not the original
diff --git a/src/coord/axisCommonTypes.ts b/src/coord/axisCommonTypes.ts
index bb4d1b7bf1..aa92868e3e 100644
--- a/src/coord/axisCommonTypes.ts
+++ b/src/coord/axisCommonTypes.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 * under the License.
 */
 
+import { TextAlign, TextVerticalAlign } from 'zrender/src/core/types';
 import {
     TextCommonOption, LineStyleOption, OrdinalRawValue, ZRColor,
     AreaStyleOption, ComponentOption, ColorString,
@@ -223,6 +224,14 @@ interface AxisLabelBaseOption extends Omit<TextCommonOption, 'color'> {
     showMinLabel?: boolean,
     // true | false | null/undefined (auto)
     showMaxLabel?: boolean,
+    // 'left' | 'center' | 'right' | null/undefined (auto)
+    alignMinLabel?: TextAlign,
+    // 'left' | 'center' | 'right' | null/undefined (auto)
+    alignMaxLabel?: TextAlign,
+    // 'top' | 'middle' | 'bottom' | null/undefined (auto)
+    verticalAlignMinLabel?: TextVerticalAlign,
+    // 'top' | 'middle' | 'bottom' | null/undefined (auto)
+    verticalAlignMaxLabel?: TextVerticalAlign,
     margin?: number,
     rich?: Dictionary<TextCommonOption>
     /**
diff --git a/src/core/echarts.ts b/src/core/echarts.ts
index aaf538c72e..69978fd34b 100644
--- a/src/core/echarts.ts
+++ b/src/core/echarts.ts
@@ -429,10 +429,14 @@ class ECharts extends Eventful<ECEventDefinition> {
 
         zrender.registerSSRDataGetter(el => {
             const ecData = getECData(el);
+            const dataIndex = ecData.dataIndex;
+            if (dataIndex == null) {
+                return;
+            }
             const hashMap = createHashMap();
             hashMap.set('series_index', ecData.seriesIndex);
-            hashMap.set('data_index', ecData.dataIndex);
-            hashMap.set('ssr_type', ecData.ssrType);
+            hashMap.set('data_index', dataIndex);
+            ecData.ssrType && hashMap.set('ssr_type', ecData.ssrType);
             return hashMap;
         });
 
diff --git a/src/data/helper/sourceHelper.ts b/src/data/helper/sourceHelper.ts
index f0277d3a1d..d1aa89d5ef 100644
--- a/src/data/helper/sourceHelper.ts
+++ b/src/data/helper/sourceHelper.ts
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ export function querySeriesUpstreamDatasetModel(
 export function queryDatasetUpstreamDatasetModels(
     datasetModel: DatasetModel
 ): DatasetModel[] {
-    // Only these attributes declared, we by defualt reference to `datasetIndex: 0`.
+    // Only these attributes declared, we by default reference to `datasetIndex: 0`.
     // Otherwise, no reference.
     if (!datasetModel.get('transform', true)
         && !datasetModel.get('fromTransformResult', true)
diff --git a/src/util/innerStore.ts b/src/util/innerStore.ts
index a1ecb2a78c..cf9ede71a6 100644
--- a/src/util/innerStore.ts
+++ b/src/util/innerStore.ts
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ export const setCommonECData = (seriesIndex: number, dataType: SeriesDataType, d
                 childECData.seriesIndex = seriesIndex;
                 childECData.dataIndex = dataIdx;
                 childECData.dataType = dataType;
-                childECData.ssrType === 'chart';
+                childECData.ssrType = 'chart';
             });
         }
     }
diff --git a/test/axis-align-lastLabel.html b/test/axis-align-lastLabel.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..559f3b8365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/axis-align-lastLabel.html
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
+
+<html>
+    <head>
+        <meta charset="utf-8">
+        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
+        <script src="lib/simpleRequire.js"></script>
+        <script src="lib/config.js"></script>
+        <script src="lib/jquery.min.js"></script>
+        <script src="lib/facePrint.js"></script>
+        <script src="lib/testHelper.js"></script>
+        <!-- <script src="ut/lib/canteen.js"></script> -->
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/reset.css" />
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <style>
+        </style>
+
+
+
+        <div id="main0"></div>
+
+
+        <div id="main1"></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+        <script>
+        require([
+            'echarts',
+            // 'map/js/china',
+            // './data/nutrients.json'
+        ], function (echarts) {
+            var option;
+
+            var data = [];
+            for (let i = 0; i < 200; ++i) {
+                data.push([i, Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)]);
+            }
+
+            option = {
+                xAxis: {
+                    axisLabel: {
+                        formatter: 'label of {value}',
+                        showMinLabel: true,
+                        showMaxLabel: true,
+                        alignMinLabel: 'left',
+                        alignMaxLabel: 'right'
+                    }
+                },
+                yAxis: {},
+                series: {
+                    type: 'line',
+                    data
+                },
+                dataZoom: {
+                    type: 'slider',
+                    start: 20,
+                    end: 42
+                }
+            };
+
+            var chart = testHelper.create(echarts, 'main0', {
+                title: [
+                    'alignMinLabel: left, alignMaxLabel: right'
+                ],
+                option: option
+                // height: 300,
+                // buttons: [{text: 'btn-txt', onclick: function () {}}],
+                // recordCanvas: true,
+            });
+        });
+        </script>
+
+
+
+        <script>
+        require([
+            'echarts',
+            // 'map/js/china',
+            // './data/nutrients.json'
+        ], function (echarts) {
+            var option;
+
+            var data = [];
+            for (let i = 0; i < 200; ++i) {
+                data.push([i, Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)]);
+            }
+
+            option = {
+                yAxis: {
+                    axisLabel: {
+                        formatter: 'label of {value}',
+                        showMinLabel: true,
+                        showMaxLabel: true,
+                        verticalAlignMinLabel: 'bottom',
+                        verticalAlignMaxLabel: 'top'
+                    }
+                },
+                xAxis: {},
+                series: {
+                    type: 'line',
+                    data
+                },
+                dataZoom: {
+                    type: 'slider',
+                    start: 20,
+                    end: 42,
+                    yAxisIndex: 0
+                }
+            };
+
+            var chart = testHelper.create(echarts, 'main1', {
+                title: [
+                    'verticalAlignMinLabel: bottom, verticalAlignMaxLabel: top'
+                ],
+                option: option
+                // height: 300,
+                // buttons: [{text: 'btn-txt', onclick: function () {}}],
+                // recordCanvas: true,
+            });
+        });
+        </script>
+
+
+    </body>
+</html>
+
diff --git a/test/svg-ssr.html b/test/svg-ssr.html
index af9a4dab77..c08e02fa7d 100644
--- a/test/svg-ssr.html
+++ b/test/svg-ssr.html
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 
 
 
-
         <script>
 
             require([
@@ -118,5 +117,42 @@
         </script>
 
 
+        <script>
+            require(['echarts'], function (echarts) {
+                var option = {
+                    legend: {},
+                    xAxis: {
+                        type: 'category',
+                        data: ['Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun']
+                    },
+                    yAxis: {
+                        type: 'value'
+                    },
+                    series: [
+                        {
+                            name: 'line',
+                            data: [150, 230, 224, 218, 135, 147, 260],
+                            type: 'line'
+                        }
+                    ]
+                };
+                var myChart = testHelper.create(echarts, 'main1', {
+                    option: option,
+                    renderer: 'svg',
+                    title: 'There should not be SSR attribute with **undefined** value'
+                });
+                const svgDom = myChart.getZr().painter.getSvgDom();
+                const undefinedCount = Array.from(svgDom.querySelectorAll('path'))
+                    .filter(p => p.getAttribute('ecmeta_series_index') === 'undefined').length;
+                myChart.setOption({
+                    title: {
+                        text: 'UndefinedCount: ' + undefinedCount,
+                        textStyle: {
+                            color: undefinedCount > 0 ? 'red' : 'black'
+                        }
+                    }
+                });
+            });
+        </script>
     </body>
 </html>