Fedora 43 showing up as Fedora 42 in Boot menu

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A Fedora 43 option exists in my boot loader however doesn’t work instead the one labelled as fedora (6.17.4-200.fc42) boots 43

I’m not sure if this will be an issue later on or how to fix this if needed so any help would be appreciated thanks

Before the update in the boot menu i could pick between fedora 42 and the previous versions of it as well as the rescue version then the windows boot manager and my UEFI settings

After Updating to Fedora 43 my Boot looks like this

Fedora Linux (6.17.5-300.fc43.x86_64) 43 (Workstation Edition)
Fedora Linux (6.17.4-200.fc42.x86_64) 42 (Workstation Edition)
Fedora Linux (6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64) 42 (Workstation Edition)
The rescue for 42
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UEFI

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That’s normal - all looks good. Some are kernels you installed in F42. Leave them as is, they will get replaced once you get newer kernels through updating.
The system always keeps three kernels and kicks out the oldest when a new one is installed.

As far as I know the rescue kernel doesn’t get updated. You can do this manually if you want or just leave it. You will never need it, and when you need it, a F42 era kernel will be sufficient.

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Right, it boots the F42 version of the 6.17.4 kernel, with your F43 userland packages.

The only remnants you have of F42 on your system are the kernels (and associated bits like initramfs) - you can’t boot back into your F42 install.

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Well, it should work obviously. Sometimes there are hardware compatibility bugs in new Linux Kernel releases that affect some users but not others. You can continue to use the older, working Kernel until another Kernel update comes along and hope that the next update works with your hardware. But if the Kernel updates continue to fail on your system, you should try to figure out why they are failing and, if necessary, report a bug.

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