diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 3801c187faa..d433646292f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ jobs:
             timeout-minutes: 240
             file-env: './ci/test/00_setup_env_native_fuzz_with_valgrind.sh'
 
-          - name: 'previous releases, depends DEBUG'
+          - name: 'previous releases'
             cirrus-runner: 'ghcr.io/cirruslabs/ubuntu-runner-amd64:24.04-md'
             fallback-runner: 'ubuntu-24.04'
             timeout-minutes: 120
diff --git a/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_previous_releases.sh b/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_previous_releases.sh
index 19b9c66b44d..a44a51c37a4 100755
--- a/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_previous_releases.sh
+++ b/ci/test/00_setup_env_native_previous_releases.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ export GOAL="install"
 export CI_LIMIT_STACK_SIZE=1
 export DOWNLOAD_PREVIOUS_RELEASES="true"
 export BITCOIN_CONFIG="\
- -DWITH_ZMQ=ON -DBUILD_GUI=ON -DREDUCE_EXPORTS=ON \
+ --preset=dev-mode \
+ -DREDUCE_EXPORTS=ON \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
  -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS='-funsigned-char' \
  -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG='-g2 -O2' \