diff --git a/eng/Version.Details.xml b/eng/Version.Details.xml
index 951d1ef1c05f97..bf6d0b35499cfb 100644
--- a/eng/Version.Details.xml
+++ b/eng/Version.Details.xml
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@
       <Sha>89be445dd4936157533ad96bafb95f701430653a</Sha>
       <SourceBuild RepoName="cecil" ManagedOnly="true" />
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.NET.Workload.Emscripten.Current.Manifest-8.0.100.Transport" Version="8.0.0-rtm.23469.3">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.NET.Workload.Emscripten.Current.Manifest-8.0.100.Transport" Version="8.0.0-rtm.23469.5">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/emsdk</Uri>
-      <Sha>50bf805c8b5ca52abd34fde390609d8a54640246</Sha>
+      <Sha>9b58e7c522a7473e559c6ac15952868130425372</Sha>
       <SourceBuild RepoName="emsdk" ManagedOnly="true" />
     </Dependency>
     <Dependency Name="Microsoft.SourceBuild.Intermediate.source-build-reference-packages" Version="8.0.0-alpha.1.23469.1">
@@ -398,5 +398,9 @@
       <Uri>https://github.com/NuGet/NuGet.Client</Uri>
       <Sha>8fef55f5a55a3b4f2c96cd1a9b5ddc51d4b927f8</Sha>
     </Dependency>
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.Dotnet.Sdk.Internal" Version="8.0.100-rc.2.23470.7">
+      <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/installer</Uri>
+      <Sha>dbeae1ac71d95355452952059f35960991cb3fd2</Sha>
+    </Dependency>
   </ToolsetDependencies>
 </Dependencies>
diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index 113383aab30cf2..b9edf26f01fe1e 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -205,8 +205,6 @@
     <GrpcCoreVersion>2.46.3</GrpcCoreVersion>
     <GrpcDotnetClientVersion>2.45.0</GrpcDotnetClientVersion>
     <GrpcToolsVersion>2.45.0</GrpcToolsVersion>
-    <!-- Uncomment to set a fixed version, else the latest is used -->
-    <SdkVersionForWorkloadTesting>8.0.100-rc.1.23415.5</SdkVersionForWorkloadTesting>
     <CompilerPlatformTestingVersion>1.1.2-beta1.23323.1</CompilerPlatformTestingVersion>
     <!-- Docs -->
     <MicrosoftPrivateIntellisenseVersion>8.0.0-preview-20230918.1</MicrosoftPrivateIntellisenseVersion>
@@ -240,7 +238,7 @@
          Note: when the name is updated, make sure to update dependency name in eng/pipelines/common/xplat-setup.yml
                like - DarcDependenciesChanged.Microsoft_NET_Workload_Emscripten_Current_Manifest-8_0_100_Transport
     -->
-    <MicrosoftNETWorkloadEmscriptenCurrentManifest80100TransportVersion>8.0.0-rtm.23469.3</MicrosoftNETWorkloadEmscriptenCurrentManifest80100TransportVersion>
+    <MicrosoftNETWorkloadEmscriptenCurrentManifest80100TransportVersion>8.0.0-rtm.23469.5</MicrosoftNETWorkloadEmscriptenCurrentManifest80100TransportVersion>
     <MicrosoftNETRuntimeEmscriptenVersion>$(MicrosoftNETWorkloadEmscriptenCurrentManifest80100TransportVersion)</MicrosoftNETRuntimeEmscriptenVersion>
     <!-- workloads -->
     <SwixPackageVersion>1.1.87-gba258badda</SwixPackageVersion>
@@ -257,5 +255,8 @@
     <!-- BrowserDebugProxy libs -->
     <MicrosoftExtensionsLoggingVersion>3.1.7</MicrosoftExtensionsLoggingVersion>
     <MicrosoftSymbolStoreVersion>1.0.406601</MicrosoftSymbolStoreVersion>
+    <!-- installer version, for testing workloads -->
+    <MicrosoftDotnetSdkInternalVersion>8.0.100-rc.2.23470.7</MicrosoftDotnetSdkInternalVersion>
+    <SdkVersionForWorkloadTesting>$(MicrosoftDotnetSdkInternalVersion)</SdkVersionForWorkloadTesting>
   </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/mono/wasm/README.md b/src/mono/wasm/README.md
index 34c18bc8711468..cdace086f5603e 100644
--- a/src/mono/wasm/README.md
+++ b/src/mono/wasm/README.md
@@ -350,3 +350,12 @@ npm update --lockfile-version=1
 | Multi-thread      | linux: build only          | none                                 |
 
 * `high resource aot` runs a few specific library tests with AOT, that require more memory to AOT.
+
+
+# Perf pipeline
+
+TBD
+
+## Updates needed
+
+- when the base OS is upgraded, check if the version of node installed in the `eng/pipelines/coreclr/templates/run-performance-job.yml` needs an upgrade too.
diff --git a/src/tasks/WorkloadBuildTasks/InstallWorkloadFromArtifacts.cs b/src/tasks/WorkloadBuildTasks/InstallWorkloadFromArtifacts.cs
index e520057d5b3bdf..1400781b7295ee 100644
--- a/src/tasks/WorkloadBuildTasks/InstallWorkloadFromArtifacts.cs
+++ b/src/tasks/WorkloadBuildTasks/InstallWorkloadFromArtifacts.cs
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public partial class InstallWorkloadFromArtifacts : Task
         private string _tempDir = string.Empty;
         private string _nugetCachePath = string.Empty;
 
-        [GeneratedRegex(@"^\d+\.\d+\.\d+(-[A-z]*\.*\d*)?")]
+        [GeneratedRegex(@"^\d+\.\d+\.\d+(-rtm|-[A-z]*\.*\d*)?")]
         private static partial Regex bandVersionRegex();
 
         public override bool Execute()