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Its probably the most convenient window to minimise service disruption amongst users of gitlabs.

Pretty common for security patches to take place out of hours



Unless it creates a 'thundering herd', everyone downloading the update simultaneously, killing throughput.


Handling large volume of downloads of one static large package is in general a pretty solved problem.


(Unless you're Apple)


This is why torrents exist.




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