diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 1dc77603b..9821f74fb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
       id-token: write
       pull-requests: write
     container:
-      image: ghcr.io/kiracore/docker/base-image:v0.13.12
+      image: ghcr.io/kiracore/docker/base-image:v0.14.04
     steps:
           # Work around https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/760
           - name: Add safe.directory
@@ -200,11 +200,11 @@ jobs:
       pull-requests: write
     steps:
           # Install the cosign tool
-          # ref.: https://github.com/sigstore/cosign-installer, v3.0.1
+          # ref.: https://github.com/sigstore/cosign-installer, v3.4.0
           - name: Install cosign
-            uses: sigstore/cosign-installer@c3667d99424e7e6047999fb6246c0da843953c65
+            uses: sigstore/cosign-installer@e1523de7571e31dbe865fd2e80c5c7c23ae71eb4
             with:
-              cosign-release: 'v2.0.0'
+              cosign-release: 'v2.2.3'
           - name: Download artifacts
             uses: actions/download-artifact@v3.0.0
             with:
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 0325c6361..82a4e42f1 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 Features:
 
-* Fix unquoted variable in mnemonic-select
\ No newline at end of file
+* Update base-image to `v0.14.04`
+
diff --git a/docs/DOCKER.md b/docs/DOCKER.md
index e3fb77bd7..dd474e0a2 100644
--- a/docs/DOCKER.md
+++ b/docs/DOCKER.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q) && \
 # echo $(globGet BASE_IMAGE_SRC)
 
 BASE_NAME="test" && \
- BASE_IMG="ghcr.io/kiracore/docker/kira-base:v0.11.4" && \
+ BASE_IMG="ghcr.io/kiracore/docker/kira-base:v0.14.04" && \
  docker run -i -t -d --privileged --net bridge --name $BASE_NAME --hostname test.local $BASE_IMG /bin/bash
 
 # Find container by name
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ docker start -i $id
 # Delete specific container
 # one liner: docker rm -f $(timeout 3 docker ps --no-trunc -aqf "name=^${BASE_NAME}$" 2> /dev/null || echo -n "")
 docker rm -f $id
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
diff --git a/kira/configure.sh b/kira/configure.sh
index a17830879..665a8cdba 100644
--- a/kira/configure.sh
+++ b/kira/configure.sh
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ globSet EXTERNAL_ADDRESS "$cfg_p2p_external_address"
 globSet EXTERNAL_DNS "$EXTERNAL_DNS"
 globSet EXTERNAL_PORT "$EXTERNAL_P2P_PORT"
 
+#Set grpc listening address for app.toml
+globSet app_grpc_address "0.0.0.0:9090"
+
 echoInfo "INFO:    Local Addr: $LOCAL_IP"
 echoInfo "INFO:   Public Addr: $PUBLIC_IP"
 echoInfo "INFO: External Addr: $EXTERNAL_ADDRESS"
@@ -281,19 +284,25 @@ for row in "${cfg_rows[@]}"; do
 done
 
 echoInfo "INFO: Updating APP file..."
+
 getTomlVarNames $APP > /tmp/app_names.tmp
+
 mapfile app_rows < /tmp/app_names.tmp
+
 for row in "${app_rows[@]}"; do
     ( $(isNullOrWhitespaces $row) ) && continue
-    tag=$(echo $row | cut -d' ' -f1 | tr -d '\011\012\013\014\015\040\133\135' | xargs)
-    name=$(echo $row | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\011\012\013\014\015\040\133\135' | xargs)
-    val_target_1=$(echo "app_${tag}_${name}" | tr -d '\011\012\013\014\015\040\133\135' | xargs)
-    val_target_2=$(echo "$val_target_1" | sed -r 's/[-]+/_/g' | xargs)
-    val="${!val_target_2}"
-    [ -z "$val" ] && val=$(globGet "$val_target_1")
+    
+    tag=$(echo $row | cut -d' ' -f1 | tr -d '\\011\\012\\013\\014\\015\\040\\133\\135' | xargs)
+    name=$(echo $row | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\\011\\012\\013\\014\\015\\040\\133\\135' | xargs)
+    
+    val_target_1="app_${tag}_${name}"
+    val_target_2=$(echo "$val_target_1" | sed -r 's/\[-\]+/\_/g')
+    
+    val=$(globGet "$val_target_1")
     [ -z "$val" ] && val=$(globGet "$val_target_2")
-    if [ ! -z "$val" ] ; then
-        echoWarn "WARNING: Updating APP value: [$tag] $name -> '$val' "
+    
+    if [ ! -z "$val" ]; then
+        echoWarn "WARNING: Updating APP value: [$tag] $name -> '$val'"
         setTomlVar "[$tag]" "$name" "$val" $APP
     else
         echoInfo "INFO: APP value: [$tag] $name will NOT change, glob val was NOT found"
diff --git a/nvim b/nvim
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/scripts/version.sh b/scripts/version.sh
index 42762bb32..d3a97c014 100644
--- a/scripts/version.sh
+++ b/scripts/version.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-echo "v0.11.26"
+echo "v0.12.25"
diff --git a/workstation/containers/start-validator.sh b/workstation/containers/start-validator.sh
index 27c11d04d..70ca7b3ea 100644
--- a/workstation/containers/start-validator.sh
+++ b/workstation/containers/start-validator.sh
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ if (! $($KIRA_COMMON/container-healthy.sh "$CONTAINER_NAME")) ; then
         globSet cfg_statesync_enable "true" $GLOBAL_COMMON
         globSet cfg_statesync_temp_dir "/tmp" $GLOBAL_COMMON
         # CFG [CONSENSUS]
-        globSet cfg_consensus_timeout_commit "10000ms" $GLOBAL_COMMON
+        globSet cfg_consensus_timeout_commit "3000ms" $GLOBAL_COMMON
         globSet cfg_consensus_create_empty_blocks_interval "20s" $GLOBAL_COMMON
         globSet cfg_consensus_skip_timeout_commit "false" $GLOBAL_COMMON
         # CFG [INSTRUMENTATION]
diff --git a/workstation/init.sh b/workstation/init.sh
index 33f555c4a..cf23a2261 100755
--- a/workstation/init.sh
+++ b/workstation/init.sh
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ if [ "$USER" != root ]; then
 fi
 
 # Used To Initialize essential dependencies
-BASE_IMAGE_VERSION="v0.13.14"
-TOOLS_VERSION="v0.3.46"
-COSIGN_VERSION="v2.0.2"
+BASE_IMAGE_VERSION="v0.14.04"
+TOOLS_VERSION="v0.3.54"
+COSIGN_VERSION="v2.2.3"
 
 # Force console colour to be black
 tput setab 0
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ if [ "$COSIGN_INSTALLED" == "false" ] ; then
     FILE_NAME=$(echo "cosign-${PLATFORM}-${ARCH}")
     wget https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/releases/download/${COSIGN_VERSION}/$FILE_NAME && chmod +x -v ./$FILE_NAME
     FILE_HASH=$(sha256sum ./$FILE_NAME | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs || echo -n "")
-    COSIGN_HASH_ARM="517e96f9d036c4b77db01132cacdbef21e4266e9ad3a93e67773c590ba54e26f"
-    COSIGN_HASH_AMD="dc641173cbda29ba48580cdde3f80f7a734f3b558a25e5950a4b19f522678c70"
+    COSIGN_HASH_ARM="b088d676f0c0123b8c348e18d421cf966020edc4977a486115a12643dea99a3f"
+    COSIGN_HASH_AMD="f669f41176cb1d58bb6a3fdb06e24861540cfdb5a571b4ec5eb2218b0df5d304"
 
     if [ "$FILE_HASH" != "$COSIGN_HASH_ARM" ] && [ "$FILE_HASH" != "$COSIGN_HASH_AMD" ] ; then
         echoErr "ERROR: Failed to download cosign tool, expected checksum to be '$COSIGN_HASH', but got '$FILE_HASH'"