firmware: Remove the beta release folder

Remove the beta release folder and replace with a symlink to the
'latest' release.

Including beta firmware in the APT release causes unecessary churn
and occasionally causes an issue where a user might end up on an
old and unsupported beta release.

Instead, beta releases are will be feature specific and installed
manually via 'rpi-eeprom-config --edit beta-firmware.bin'

i.e. beta releases will be out-of-package custom firmware releases
downloaded from github. The functionality will be merged into
a new latest/stable release or abandoned.

N.B. The old beta releases have been archived to 'old' but are no
longer included in APT.
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Tim Gover
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# Raspberry Pi4 bootloader EEPROM release notes
## 2023-08-01 - Remove beta release folder
* Remove the beta release folder and provide a symlink to stable
for backwards compatibility for anyone who has beta in
the defaults file.
Future beta releases will be "feature-specific" and on a separate
branch / download rather than appearing in the generic APT release.
## 2023-05-15 - Promote pieeprom-2023-05-11 to STABLE
## 2023-05-11 - Fix hang in secure-boot init - BETA