#617 ERROR on "Checking for new Version"

[Manfred Alfaré]

For both, manual checking or "Check at Start Up" gives me the following ERROR:

17-12-01 22:34 - INFO - Checking new version of Areca ...
17-12-01 22:34 - INFO - Opening url : http://www.areca-backup.org/version_xml.php?currentVersion=7.5&randomArg=0.5687262259885966
17-12-01 22:34 - ERROR
com.myJava.util.version.VersionDataAdapterException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 2; columnNumber: 2; Markup im Dokument nach dem Root-Element muss ordnungsgemäß formatiert sein.
    at com.myJava.util.version.XMLVersionDataAdapter.read(XMLVersionDataAdapter.java:62)
    at com.myJava.util.version.VersionDataHandler.readVersionData(VersionDataHandler.java:63)
    at com.application.areca.version.VersionChecker.checkForNewVersion(VersionChecker.java:91)
    at com.application.areca.launcher.gui.Application$8.run(Application.java:867)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 2; columnNumber: 2; Markup im Dokument nach dem Root-Element muss ordnungsgemäß formatiert sein.
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:257)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:339)
    at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:121)
    at com.myJava.util.version.XMLVersionDataAdapter.read(XMLVersionDataAdapter.java:59)
    ... 4 more

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_151"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2-b12)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)

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Areca Backup
Version 7.5 - 26. August 2015
Copyright 2005 - 2015, Olivier PETRUCCI.
aventin@users.sourceforge.net

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Last run (with check for update set) was O.K on 2017-11-20 Linux Mint 18.2
Today Backup O.K. but check for update not O.K. Linux Mint 18.3

What happened?

Regards
Manfred