From 3652899e266931494ce914dd2e4a5f55da2811d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fxrhan <fxrhanansari@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 22:30:57 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix broken GitHub downloads URL in update message

The /downloads endpoint was removed by GitHub years ago and now returns 404. Updated to point to /releases which has the actual download links.
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 lib/core/update.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/update.py b/lib/core/update.py
index bd5e42039..78635ff39 100644
--- a/lib/core/update.py
+++ b/lib/core/update.py
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ def update():
             infoMsg += "to use a GitHub for Windows client for updating "
             infoMsg += "purposes (https://desktop.github.com/) or just "
             infoMsg += "download the latest snapshot from "
-            infoMsg += "https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/downloads"
+            infoMsg += "https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/releases"
         else:
             infoMsg = "for Linux platform it's recommended "
             infoMsg += "to install a standard 'git' package (e.g.: 'apt install git')"