diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala
index ec10295358d55..f4c314cd6092d 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ class HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite extends SparkSubmitTestUtils {
           case _: Exception => None
         }
       }
-    val sites = mirrors.distinct :+ "https://archive.apache.org/dist"
+    val sites =
+      mirrors.distinct :+ "https://archive.apache.org/dist" :+ PROCESS_TABLES.releaseMirror
     logInfo(s"Trying to download Spark $version from $sites")
     for (site <- sites) {
       val filename = s"spark-$version-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz"
@@ -210,11 +211,12 @@ class HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite extends SparkSubmitTestUtils {
 }
 
 object PROCESS_TABLES extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils {
+  val releaseMirror = "https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release"
   // Tests the latest version of every release line.
   val testingVersions: Seq[String] = {
     import scala.io.Source
     try {
-      Source.fromURL("https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/spark/").mkString
+      Source.fromURL(s"${releaseMirror}/spark").mkString
         .split("\n")
         .filter(_.contains("""<li><a href="spark-"""))
         .map("""<a href="spark-(\d.\d.\d)/">""".r.findFirstMatchIn(_).get.group(1))