The Tor Browser people decided to randomly change the URL that contains the update XML files, so metadata will live under update_3 at some point in the future. The sandbox code pulls all channels pull updates from update_2 at the moment (along with the relevant downloads.json files).
There's some talk of redirects so as long as update_2 keeps working till something like 7.5, this can probably be pushed off till 7.0 ships.