Hello @creamy-pencil-82913,
There's the problem. I remember asking myself that question early on, and used "v1.22" when specifying the channel (for example, from the channel API), but somehow concluded based on the success of pulling the latest release in various channels (and fact that the installed package name includes the version without the v), that INSTALL_RKE2_CHANNEL was somehow overriding INSTALL_RKE2_VERSION in those cases. My mistake. Thank you.