Auto merge of #42455 - alexcrichton:stable-next, r=alexcrichton

Prepare 1.18.0 stable release artifacts

These'll upload to dev first and we'll promote them to stable later this week
when we actually do the release.

Author: bors

src/ci/run.sh

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ fi
 # FIXME: need a scheme for changing this `nightly` value to `beta` and `stable`
 #        either automatically or manually.
 if [ "$DEPLOY$DEPLOY_ALT" != "" ]; then
-  RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS="$RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS --release-channel=beta"
+  RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS="$RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS --release-channel=stable"
   RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS="$RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS --enable-llvm-static-stdcpp"
 
   if [ "$NO_LLVM_ASSERTIONS" = "1" ]; then