freebsd-update failed an integrity check

I encountered this issue today on a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4 system.

[dvl@sdev01 ~]$ sudo freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
Password:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... donet

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/src world/base world/lib32

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
world/doc world/games

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.

The update metadata is correctly signed, but
failed an integrity check.
Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.
[dvl@sdev01 ~]$ 

The solution: freebsd-update fetch install and then a reboot.

$ sudo freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.1-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/src world/base world/lib32

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
world/doc world/games

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Fetching files from 9.1-RELEASE for merging... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 39469 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110....120....130....140....150....160....170....180....190....200....210....220....230....240....250....260....270....280..
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