When trying to update Dom0 from cli - Unable to detect release version error appeared

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When I try to run sudo qubes-dom0-update, am receiving:

Using sys-whonix as UpdateVM to download updates for Dom0; this may take some time…
Unable to detect release version (use ‘–releasever’ to specify release version)
Fedora 37 - x86_64 11 kB/s | 22 kB 00:01
Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates 13 kB/s | 21 kB 00:01
Qubes Host Repository (updates) 1.9 kB/s | 2.7 kB 00:01
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
Qubes OS Repository for Dom0 2.3 MB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
Qubes OS Repository for Dom0 46 kB/s | 1.8 kB 00:00

When I try sudo qubes-dom0-update --releasever=4.2, I am getting:

Using sys-whonix as UpdateVM to download updates for Dom0; this may take some time…
Unable to detect release version (use ‘–releasever’ to specify release version)
Fedora 37 - x86_64 8.6 kB/s | 22 kB 00:02
Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates 9.9 kB/s | 21 kB 00:02
Qubes Host Repository (updates) 975 B/s | 2.7 kB 00:02
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
Qubes OS Repository for Dom0 2.9 MB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
Qubes OS Repository for Dom0 51 kB/s | 1.8 kB 00:00

When I try sudo qubes-dom0-update --releasever=r4.2, I am receiving:

Using sys-whonix as UpdateVM to download updates for Dom0; this may take some time…
Unable to detect release version (use ‘–releasever’ to specify release version)
Fedora 37 - x86_64 18 kB/s | 22 kB 00:01
Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates 18 kB/s | 21 kB 00:01
Qubes Host Repository (updates) 28 B/s | 153 B 00:05
Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘qubes-dom0-current’:
- Status code: 404 for https://yum.qubes-os.org/rr4.2/current/host/fc37/repodata/repomd.xml.metalink (IP: 147.75.102.29)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘qubes-dom0-current’: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://yum.qubes-os.org/rr4.2/current/host/fc37/repodata/repomd.xml.metalink (IP: 147.75.102.29)

The minor version of Fedora I have in Qubes 4.2 is 38, and I already installed 39- template, and I do not use neither actually - all of my Qubes are based on Bookworm …

Why qubes-dom0-update is looking into the older version of Fedora as in Global Configuration my default Templates (and PHVs) are based on Debian 12?

Please, help to resolve.

Thanks,

Mara

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dom0 deliberately uses an older version of Fedora. You just need to update your templates to a newer version because that’s where your application are and everything network related will happen.

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Thanks a ton @DVM !