Publishing a vX.Y.Z GitHub release is the whole promotion: the source
updater's stable channel now reads only GitHub's latest published release
(non-draft, non-prerelease, strict vX.Y.Z) and verifies the tag on origin.
It no longer asks R2 for releases/channels/stable.json first, and it
ignores the R2 release-candidates pointer, which the stable pipeline writes
before the GitHub draft is published.