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geoipupdate now identifies the database to download by its build epoch rather than its date. The download request sends the build_epoch from the metadata response. A request by date returns the latest build of that day, so a new build published during an update could cause a checksum mismatch.

The date request is gone. If the metadata has no build_epoch, the update fails with an error. Without that check, the client would send build_epoch=0, and the server would return its latest build. This needs STF-295 deployed first. Today production does not send build_epoch.

The second commit fixes an existing leak. download did not close the response body on a non-200 status, or on a tar archive without an .mmdb file. err is now a named result, so the deferred closes see every error. TestDownload now checks that no response body stays open after a failed download.

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    • Downloads now select the exact database build using its build epoch instead of its date.
    • Failed downloads close their HTTP response bodies, including when the server returns an unsuccessful status or the archive does not contain an .mmdb file.
    • Metadata without a build epoch is rejected with an error.

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The client now selects a database build using the build epoch in metadata and sends it with the download request. It also closes response bodies when downloads return errors.

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Metadata-based build selection
client/metadata.go, client/metadata_test.go, client/download.go, client/download_test.go, cmd/geoipupdate/end_to_end_test.go, internal/geoipupdate/geoip_updater_test.go, CHANGELOG.md
Metadata now includes a required, nonzero build epoch associated with the MD5. Downloads send it as the build_epoch query parameter with the tar.gz suffix. Tests and fixtures cover metadata validation and download requests. The changelog records the change from date-based selection.
Response-body cleanup on errors
client/download.go, client/download_test.go, CHANGELOG.md
The download function uses its named error result for deferred response-body cleanup. Tests track response bodies and check that failed downloads leave none open. The changelog records cleanup for non-200 responses and archives without an .mmdb file.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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The client requests the build identified by metadata and closes response bodies when downloads fail. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed changes.

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The modver check fails before it compares anything: the pinned bobg/modver action cannot read the export data from the current Go toolchain ("export data version 5 is greater than maximum supported version 4" while importing the standard library). The failure is unrelated to this change. (Claude Opus 5.5, on Greg's behalf)

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- When the server provides a build identifier, `geoipupdate` now downloads the
exact database build whose MD5 checksum it read from the metadata response.
Previously it requested the build by date. If a new build was published on the
same day during an update, the download could fail with a checksum mismatch.
- `client.Client.Download` now closes the HTTP response when the download
fails with a non-200 status or an archive without an `.mmdb` file.
Previously each such failure leaked a connection.

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oschwald and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 22:37
The metadata response gives the MD5 of one database build. Requesting
the download by date returns the latest build of that day, so a build
published between the two requests causes a checksum mismatch.

Request the download by the build_epoch from the metadata instead. The
server always sends build_epoch, so the date request is gone. Metadata
without build_epoch is now an error. Without the check, the request
would send build_epoch=0, and the server would return its latest build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
download closes the response body and the gzip reader in deferred
functions that check err. A non-200 status returned a new error without
assigning err. The tar loop declared a new err that hid the outer one.
In both cases the deferred closes did nothing, and the connection
leaked.

Make err a named result, so every error return sets it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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oschwald added a commit to maxmind/pygeoipupdate that referenced this pull request Oct 15, 2026
The metadata response gives the MD5 of one database build. Requesting
the download by date returns the latest build of that day, so a build
published between the two requests causes a checksum mismatch.

Request the download by the build_epoch from the metadata instead. The
server always sends build_epoch, so the date request is gone.

This ports maxmind/geoipupdate#566.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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