diff --git a/src/ci/channel b/src/ci/channel
index bf867e0ae5b6c..65b2df87f7df3 100644
--- a/src/ci/channel
+++ b/src/ci/channel
@@ -1 +1 @@
-nightly
+beta
diff --git a/src/stage0.txt b/src/stage0.txt
index e9d0b73e94db0..38ea3ae6b6a2b 100644
--- a/src/stage0.txt
+++ b/src/stage0.txt
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@
 # stable release's version number. `date` is the date where the release we're
 # bootstrapping off was released.
 
-date: 2021-06-23
-rustc: beta
+date: 2021-07-26
+rustc: 1.54.0
 
 # We use a nightly rustfmt to format the source because it solves some
 # bootstrapping issues with use of new syntax in this repo. If you're looking at
 # the beta/stable branch, this key should be omitted, as we don't want to depend
 # on rustfmt from nightly there.
-rustfmt: nightly-2021-03-25
+#rustfmt: nightly-2021-03-25
 
 # When making a stable release the process currently looks like:
 #
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ rustfmt: nightly-2021-03-25
 # looking at a beta source tarball and it's uncommented we'll shortly comment it
 # out.
 
-#dev: 1
+dev: 1