diff --git a/zuul.d/integrated-gate.yaml b/zuul.d/integrated-gate.yaml
index 2d4b8d9be3..87b8af0dfb 100644
--- a/zuul.d/integrated-gate.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/integrated-gate.yaml
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
 - job:
     name: tempest-ipv6-only
     parent: devstack-tempest-ipv6
-    # This currently works from stable/pike on.
-    branches: ^(?!stable/ocata).*$
     description: |
       Integration test of IPv6-only deployments. This job runs
       smoke and IPv6 relates tests only. Basic idea is to test
@@ -33,10 +31,6 @@
 - job:
     name: tempest-full
     parent: devstack-tempest
-    # This currently works from stable/pike on.
-    # Before stable/pike, legacy version of tempest-full
-    # 'legacy-tempest-dsvm-neutron-full' run.
-    branches: ^(?!stable/ocata).*$
     description: |
       Base integration test with Neutron networking and py27.
       This job is supposed to run until stable/train setup only.
@@ -78,7 +72,9 @@
     # available in old tempest used till stable/wallaby,
     # this job definition is only for stable/xena onwards
     # and separate job definition until stable/wallaby
-    branches: ^(?!stable/(ocata|pike|queens|rocky|stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+    branches:
+      regex: ^stable/(stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+      negate: true
     description: |
       Base integration test with Neutron networking, horizon, swift enable,
       and py3.
@@ -110,7 +106,9 @@
     parent: tempest-full-py3
     nodeset: devstack-single-node-centos-9-stream
     # centos-9-stream is supported from yoga release onwards
-    branches: ^(?!stable/(pike|queens|rocky|stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby|xena)).*$
+    branches:
+      regex: ^stable/(stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby|xena)$
+      negate: true
     description: |
       Base integration test on CentOS 9 stream
     vars:
@@ -122,7 +120,6 @@
 - job:
     name: tempest-integrated-networking
     parent: devstack-tempest
-    branches: ^(?!stable/ocata).*$
     description: |
       This  job runs integration tests for networking. This is subset of
       'tempest-full-py3' job and run only Neutron and Nova related tests.
@@ -142,7 +139,6 @@
 - job:
     name: tempest-integrated-compute
     parent: devstack-tempest
-    branches: ^(?!stable/ocata).*$
     description: |
       This job runs integration tests for compute. This is
       subset of 'tempest-full-py3' job and run Nova, Neutron, Cinder (except backup tests)
@@ -171,7 +167,9 @@
     parent: tempest-integrated-compute
     nodeset: devstack-single-node-centos-9-stream
     # centos-9-stream is supported from yoga release onwards
-    branches: ^(?!stable/(pike|queens|rocky|stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby|xena)).*$
+    branches:
+      regex: ^stable/(stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby|xena)$
+      negate: true
     description: |
       This job runs integration tests for compute. This is
       subset of 'tempest-full-py3' job and run Nova, Neutron, Cinder (except backup tests)
@@ -185,7 +183,6 @@
 - job:
     name: tempest-integrated-placement
     parent: devstack-tempest
-    branches: ^(?!stable/ocata).*$
     description: |
       This job runs integration tests for placement. This is
       subset of 'tempest-full-py3' job and run Nova and Neutron
@@ -211,7 +208,6 @@
 - job:
     name: tempest-integrated-storage
     parent: devstack-tempest
-    branches: ^(?!stable/ocata).*$
     description: |
       This job runs integration tests for image & block storage. This is
       subset of 'tempest-full-py3' job and run Cinder, Glance, Swift and Nova
@@ -227,7 +223,6 @@
 - job:
     name: tempest-integrated-object-storage
     parent: devstack-tempest
-    branches: ^(?!stable/ocata).*$
     description: |
       This job runs integration tests for object storage. This is
       subset of 'tempest-full-py3' job and run Swift, Cinder and Glance
@@ -259,7 +254,9 @@
     parent: tempest-multinode-full-base
     nodeset: openstack-two-node-jammy
     # This job runs on ubuntu Jammy and after stable/zed.
-    branches: ^(?!stable/(pike|queens|rocky|stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby|xena|yoga|zed)).*$
+    branches:
+      regex: ^stable/(stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby|xena|yoga|zed)$
+      negate: true
     vars:
       # NOTE(gmann): Default concurrency is higher (number of cpu -2) which
       # end up 6 in upstream CI. Higher concurrency means high parallel
@@ -294,8 +291,6 @@
         * legacy-tempest-dsvm-neutron-scenario-multinode-lvm-multibackend
         * tempest-scenario-multinode-lvm-multibackend
     timeout: 10800
-    # This job runs on stable/stein onwards.
-    branches: ^(?!stable/(ocata|pike|queens|rocky)).*$
     vars:
       tox_envlist: slow-serial
       devstack_localrc:
@@ -323,7 +318,9 @@
     # As the 'slow' tox env which is not available in old tempest used
     # till stable/wallaby, this job definition is only for stable/xena
     # onwards and separate job definition until stable/wallaby
-    branches: ^(?!stable/(ocata|pike|queens|rocky|stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+    branches:
+      regex: ^stable/(stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+      negate: true
     vars:
       tox_envlist: slow
       devstack_localrc:
@@ -450,7 +447,9 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
     gate:
       jobs:
         - grenade
@@ -460,7 +459,9 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
 
 - project-template:
     name: integrated-gate-compute
@@ -498,7 +499,9 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
     gate:
       jobs:
         - grenade-skip-level-always:
@@ -506,12 +509,16 @@
               - master
         - tempest-integrated-compute
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
     periodic-weekly:
       jobs:
         # centos-9-stream is tested from zed release onwards
         - tempest-integrated-compute-centos-9-stream:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(pike|queens|rocky|stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby|xena|yoga)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(stein|train|ussuri|victoria|wallaby|xena|yoga)$
+              negate: true
 
 - project-template:
     name: integrated-gate-placement
@@ -533,7 +540,9 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
     gate:
       jobs:
         - grenade
@@ -543,7 +552,9 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
 
 - project-template:
     name: integrated-gate-storage
@@ -565,7 +576,9 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
     gate:
       jobs:
         - grenade
@@ -575,7 +588,9 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
 
 - project-template:
     name: integrated-gate-object-storage
@@ -593,7 +608,9 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
     gate:
       jobs:
         - grenade
@@ -603,4 +620,6 @@
         # and job is broken up to wallaby branch due to the issue
         # described in https://review.opendev.org/872341
         - openstacksdk-functional-devstack:
-            branches: ^(?!stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)).*$
+            branches:
+              regex: ^stable/(ussuri|victoria|wallaby)$
+              negate: true
diff --git a/zuul.d/stable-jobs.yaml b/zuul.d/stable-jobs.yaml
index d39955626b..cc13426c9f 100644
--- a/zuul.d/stable-jobs.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/stable-jobs.yaml
@@ -95,9 +95,6 @@
     # This job version is with swift disabled on py3
     # as swift was not ready on py3 until stable/train.
     branches:
-      - stable/pike
-      - stable/queens
-      - stable/rocky
       - stable/stein
       - stable/train
     description: |
@@ -226,73 +223,12 @@
         devstack_localrc:
           USE_PYTHON3: False
 
-- job:
-    name: tempest-multinode-full
-    parent: tempest-multinode-full-base
-    nodeset: openstack-two-node-xenial
-    # This job runs on Xenial and this is for stable/pike, stable/queens
-    # and stable/rocky. This job is prepared to make sure all stable branches
-    # before stable/stein will keep running on xenial. This job can be
-    # removed once stable/rocky is EOL.
-    branches:
-      - stable/pike
-      - stable/queens
-      - stable/rocky
-    vars:
-      devstack_localrc:
-        USE_PYTHON3: False
-    group-vars:
-      subnode:
-        devstack_localrc:
-          USE_PYTHON3: False
-
-- job:
-    name: tempest-slow
-    parent: tempest-multinode-full
-    description: |
-      This multinode integration job will run all the tests tagged as slow.
-      It enables the lvm multibackend setup to cover few scenario tests.
-      This job will run only slow tests (API or Scenario) serially.
-      Former names for this job were:
-        * legacy-tempest-dsvm-neutron-scenario-multinode-lvm-multibackend
-        * tempest-scenario-multinode-lvm-multibackend
-    timeout: 10800
-    branches:
-      - stable/pike
-      - stable/queens
-      - stable/rocky
-    vars:
-      tox_envlist: slow-serial
-      devstack_localrc:
-        CINDER_ENABLED_BACKENDS: lvm:lvmdriver-1,lvm:lvmdriver-2
-        ENABLE_VOLUME_MULTIATTACH: true
-        # to avoid https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1914037
-        # as we couldn't backport the fix to rocky and older releases
-        IPV6_PUBLIC_RANGE: 2001:db8:0:10::/64
-        IPV6_PUBLIC_NETWORK_GATEWAY: 2001:db8:0:10::2
-        IPV6_ROUTER_GW_IP: 2001:db8:0:10::1
-      devstack_plugins:
-        neutron: https://opendev.org/openstack/neutron
-      devstack_services:
-        neutron-placement: true
-        neutron-qos: true
-    group-vars:
-      # NOTE(mriedem): The ENABLE_VOLUME_MULTIATTACH variable is used on both
-      # the controller and subnode prior to Rocky so we have to make sure the
-      # variable is set in both locations.
-      subnode:
-        devstack_localrc:
-          ENABLE_VOLUME_MULTIATTACH: true
-
 - job:
     name: tempest-slow-py3
     parent: tempest-slow
     # This job version is with swift disabled on py3
     # as swift was not ready on py3 until stable/train.
     branches:
-      - stable/pike
-      - stable/queens
-      - stable/rocky
       - stable/stein
       - stable/train
     vars:
@@ -333,9 +269,6 @@
     # This job is not used after stable/xena and can be
     # removed once stable/xena is EOL.
     branches:
-      - stable/pike
-      - stable/queens
-      - stable/rocky
       - stable/stein
       - stable/train
       - stable/ussuri
diff --git a/zuul.d/tempest-specific.yaml b/zuul.d/tempest-specific.yaml
index ca63fcc66b..10490b4aea 100644
--- a/zuul.d/tempest-specific.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/tempest-specific.yaml
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@
 - job:
     name: tempest-full-py3-ipv6
     parent: devstack-tempest-ipv6
-    branches: ^(?!stable/ocata).*$
     description: |
       Base integration test with Neutron networking, IPv6 and py3.
     vars: