Will Win 11 beta channel move to 2300 series now dev is on 2600?

I've basically got the same issue here where somehow I was on beta but got pushed a dev install (23565.1000 ni\_prerelease), but I'm on beta channel. Or maybe it used to be dev and moved to beta or something.[https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsinsiders/comments/11mqsux/am\_on\_beta\_channel\_still\_got\_the\_23xxx\_update\_is/](https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsinsiders/comments/11mqsux/am_on_beta_channel_still_got_the_23xxx_update_is/)

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Obviously it's not going to give me a 22000 series build without a clean install (not happening, this is my daily driver used for development, a lot of apps and data, and a major headache to reinstall everything. Sure it's backed up in cloud & on my NAS, and I have a bare metal back-up I can reinstall whenever fast, but a fresh install is a major undertaking and can't be out of action for days reinstalling things, especially as I have multiple profiles).

From this announcement, dev are moving from 23000 series to 26000 series.

"Starting today, Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel are being moved from receiving 23000 series builds to receiving 26000 series builds."

[https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/02/08/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26052-canary-and-dev-channels/](https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/02/08/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26052-canary-and-dev-channels/)

I'm wondering if that means beta channel 22000 will move to 23000, and if so can I just remain on beta and it will start picking up those builds once it's same or higher than what I've got?

Or can I trust dev channel? Last year [they recommended dev channel](https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/03/06/whats-coming-for-the-windows-insider-program-in-2023/), but the above recommends beta and also warns dev has "low stability".

(oops, missed a 0 in the numbers in the post title)