Version 1.523 is fine, but as soon as we try to auto-upgrade, we get the following error:

org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.ReactorException: java.lang.Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.execute(Reactor.java:246)
at jenkins.InitReactorRunner.run(InitReactorRunner.java:43)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins.executeReactor(Jenkins.java:906)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins.<init>(Jenkins.java:806)
at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:81)
at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:77)
at hudson.WebAppMain$3.run(WebAppMain.java:221)
Caused by: java.lang.Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at hudson.init.InitializerFinder.invoke(InitializerFinder.java:124)
at hudson.init.InitializerFinder$TaskImpl.run(InitializerFinder.java:184)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.runTask(Reactor.java:259)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins$7.runTask(Jenkins.java:895)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$2.run(Reactor.java:187)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$Node.run(Reactor.java:94)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at hudson.init.InitializerFinder.invoke(InitializerFinder.java:120)
... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hudson/maven/MavenModule
at hudson.plugins.jobConfigHistory.JobConfigHistory.isSaveable(JobConfigHistory.java:426)
at hudson.plugins.jobConfigHistory.JobConfigHistorySaveableListener.onChange(JobConfigHistorySaveableListener.java:28)
at hudson.model.listeners.SaveableListener.fireOnChange(SaveableListener.java:78)
at hudson.model.UpdateCenter.save(UpdateCenter.java:520)
at hudson.util.PersistedList.onModified(PersistedList.java:173)
at hudson.util.PersistedList.replaceBy(PersistedList.java:85)
at hudson.model.UpdateCenter.load(UpdateCenter.java:534)
at hudson.model.UpdateCenter.init(UpdateCenter.java:1545)
... 13 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: hudson.maven.MavenModule
at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.findClassInComponents(AntClassLoader.java:1365)
at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.findClass(AntClassLoader.java:1315)
at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.loadClass(AntClassLoader.java:1068)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
... 21 more