As discussed in https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-33557?focusedCommentId=251657&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-251657 and confirmed in the next comment, there's indeed a bug with 2.x :
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is displayed even for totally fresh instance.
To reproduce easily with a locally built/downloaded jenkins.war:
docker run -v $PWD/jenkins.war:/jenkins.war:ro -p 10000:8080 -it java:7 java -jar /jenkins.war
[JENKINS-33767] "Upgrading" is proposed even to fresh v2 installs
Resolution | New: Fixed [ 1 ] | |
Status | Original: Open [ 1 ] | New: Resolved [ 5 ] |
Workflow | Original: JNJira [ 169747 ] | New: JNJira + In-Review [ 198670 ] |
Being fixed in https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/2166