'open recent' crash

[gcsideal]

I've updated git-cola from 2.8 to 2.9 and everything looked normal. Opened my Git repository and just pointed on 'File' -> 'Open Recent' and get the following stack trace:
$ git-cola
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/git-cola/lib/cola/widgets/main.py", line 540, in build_recent_menu
name = os.path.basename(r)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/posixpath.py", line 139, in basename
i = p.rfind(sep) + 1
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'rfind'
Aborted

My git-cola/settings contain this relevant part:
"recent": [
{
"path": "[normal Git repository path]",
"name": "[Git repository name]"
}
],