I updated maven-plugin and repository-connector to latest versions. Kaboom!
I did a jenkins update from 1.403 to 1.404 in a previous step.
org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: jar:file:/C:/tools/hudson/war/WEB-INF/lib/jenkins-core-1.404.jar!/lib/layout/layout.jelly:130:53: java.lang.StackOverflowError at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.handleException(TagScript.java:728) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:290) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95) at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95) at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99) at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95) at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.CoreTagLibrary$2.run(CoreTagLibrary.java:105) at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.CallTagLibScript.run(CallTagLibScript.java:119) at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.CoreTagLibrary$2.run(CoreTagLibrary.java:105) at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.JellyViewScript.run(JellyViewScript.java:63) at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.DefaultScriptInvoker.invokeScript(DefaultScriptInvoker.java:63) at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.DefaultScriptInvoker.invokeScript(DefaultScriptInvoker.java:53) at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.JellyClassTearOff.serveIndexJelly(JellyClassTearOff.java:72)