v22.1 is a minor launch that ports some more moderen bug fixes and different small enhancements onto v22.0 with out introducing any breaking adjustments from v23 and onward. For those who’re presently working v22.0 and depend upon some habits that has modified since then, and do not wish to cope with the breaking change proper now, it’s best to replace to v22.1. That is the one motive minor updates of previous main releases exist, and if it does not apply to you, you ought to be nice with updating to v24.0.1.

And which model has the consensus?

Each model of Bitcoin Core since v0.8.6 (launched in December 2013) will be capable to sync to the present chain^[1]. Moreover, each model since v0.21.1 will validate in accordance with the newest consensus guidelines which have modified with the Taproot mushy fork.