beacon, registry: Fix beacon history stall #2990

Job	Run time
Lint	45s
ARM [GOAL install] [buster]	11m 59s
Win32	13m 34s
macOS 12 native [GOAL install] [GUI] [no depends]	24m 53s
Win64	31m 9s
i386 Linux [GOAL install] [focal]	12m 9s
x86_64 Linux [GOAL install] [GUI] [focal] [no depends]	16m 48s
x86_64 Linux [GOAL install] [GUI] [bionic] [no depends]	16m 33s
macOS 10.14 [GOAL deploy] [GUI] [no tests] [focal]	28m 41s
	2h 36m 31s

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