Switching Mihomo Core Versions: Stable vs Alpha

Clash Verge is the shell; the Mihomo core does the actual work. The app ships two core channels you can swap between at any time — invaluable when a brand-new protocol lands and stable hasn't caught up yet.

What each channel is for

• Stable — follows official Mihomo releases; the default for daily use;
• Alpha — nightly builds; new protocol features (fresh transports, handshakes) land here first, at the cost of occasional bugs.

The classic reason to jump to Alpha: your provider adds nodes on some just-released protocol variant and the stable core throws unsupported type at them — Alpha usually already speaks it.

Switching and upgrading

1. Settings → find the Clash Core section;
2. Click the version entry to flip between Stable and Alpha — the core restarts itself, two or three seconds of downtime;
3. The Upgrade Core button pulls the newest build of the current channel over the network — no need to wait for a Verge app release.

Does my config survive?

Yes. Profiles, rules and ports live in the app layer; the core just executes them. The one caveat is downgrading: if your config uses an Alpha-only field, the stable core may refuse to load it — comment those fields out of your Merge config.