After upgrading to 2.222.3 (from 2.204.2) Jenkins fails to load properly and displays this error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class hudson.model.Hudson$MasterComputer
{{ at jenkins.model.Jenkins.createComputer(Jenkins.java:3106)}}
{{ at hudson.model.AbstractCIBase.updateComputer(AbstractCIBase.java:136)}}
{{ at hudson.model.AbstractCIBase.access$000(AbstractCIBase.java:47)}}
{{ at hudson.model.AbstractCIBase$2.run(AbstractCIBase.java:210)}}
{{ at hudson.model.Queue._withLock(Queue.java:1399)}}
{{ at hudson.model.Queue.withLock(Queue.java:1276)}}
{{ at hudson.model.AbstractCIBase.updateComputerList(AbstractCIBase.java:196)}}
{{ at jenkins.model.Jenkins.updateComputerList(Jenkins.java:1617)}}
{{ at jenkins.model.Jenkins.<init>(Jenkins.java:998)}}
{{ at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:85)}}
{{ at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:81)}}
{{ at hudson.WebAppMain$3.run(WebAppMain.java:233)}}
Caused: hudson.util.HudsonFailedToLoad
{{ at hudson.WebAppMain$3.run(WebAppMain.java:247)}}

$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_201"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_201-b09)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.201-b09, mixed mode)