NPE when well-formed Jira Issue doesn't exist

Error updating JIRA issues. Saving issues for next build.
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraIssue.<init>(JiraIssue.java:31)
	at hudson.plugins.jira.Updater.getJiraIssues(Updater.java:208)
	at hudson.plugins.jira.Updater.perform(Updater.java:114)
	at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraIssueUpdater.perform(JiraIssueUpdater.java:64)
	at hudson.tasks.BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.perform(BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.java:78)
	at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:45)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:782)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:723)
	at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$MavenModuleSetBuildExecution.post2(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:1047)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:668)
	at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1763)
	at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:531)
	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:410)