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Yeah, I misspoke earlier—I wasn’t actually running the alphas, just reading release notes.
That said, the issue I’m running into is separate: the installed “Bitcoin Core” service appears to actually be Knots, and there’s no clear indication of that without inspecting it directly.
That’s pretty misleading, especially if you’re trying to work with features tied to specific Core versions (e.g. SV2 mining IPC interface).
Even after adding the alpha registry, I’m still not seeing an obvious way to install the actual Core 30 build—what am I missing?
I'm not sure what you mean. What is saying Core is actually Knots?
What ISO are you using? Use this and you won't have to be adding any alpha registry:
https://github.com/Start9Labs/start-os/releases/latest
So in the 'Marketplace' Registry there is only a 'Bitcoin Core' app. When i have that registry enabled I see that the Bitcoin Core app is installed (version 29.3). When I switch to the 'Community' Registry there is only a "Knots" app, no Bitcoin Core, which is also listed as installed. In each case the version is listed as v29.3.0, which was the latest version of Knots...
This is why I thought it was actually Knots running instead of Core but I ran some RPC commands and traced through the Knots code a little and I THINK its actually core running and not Knots.
The version info comes back as: /Satoshi:29.3.0/
Knots source also says Satoshi but also includes more stuff so it should look something like: /Satoshi:29.3.0/Knots:20260210/, from what I can tell reading the code at least.
Is it a bad interface in v0.3.5? Yes, for sure. Knots was shoehorned in to an OS that isn't receiving any more updates, and the result is that you can switch between Core and Knots without having to resync the entire chain, but the interface, especially wrt updates, is more confusing.
The fix, which you can try now, even though it seems like you'd rather just bitch about v0351 in a thread about v040, is to upgrade to v040:
https://docs.start9.com/start-os/0.4.0.x/update-040.html
Love the community here, it's like one big dysfunctional family!
Maybe you tried several of the recent alphas?
If you didn't see core 30 in the marketplace, it's because you didn't add the alpha registry (In which case it seems you didn't really try the alpha, since you didn't install any services?)
If you actually try a the latest (or any) beta, you will see everything, including the latest core release.