MLP 2.4.0: Fatal error (only backend) after update #204

Version information

• WordPress: 4.5.2
• MultilingualPress: 2.4.0
• PHP: 5.3.10 (FastCGI)

Steps to reproduce

1. Update to latest MLP
2. Try to access backend (wp-admin/)

What I expected

Fully functional backend

What happened instead

Error 500 with following error message:
Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Mlp_Self_Check::remove_mlp_from_update_plugins_transient() must be an instance of stdClass, boolean given in /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/multilingual-press/inc/installation/Mlp_Self_Check.php on line 146

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