Advancing Ticket through workflow results in "There were errors loading the issue."

Following our upgrade to JIRA version 5.2.11, one of our workflows is experiencing an issue. When a new ticket is created, and then the "Approve" button is pressed to move it through the workflow to the next step, the error "There were errors loading the issue." appears at the top of the screen and the ticket does not appear to advance through the workflow. However, if the browser is then refreshed, or you navigate to the ticket again, it will appear to be in the next step of the workflow - except that no transition buttons appear at all.

When the initial "approve" button is clicked, the following information is written to the JIRA log:

2013-07-24 10:55:15,033 http-bio-8080-exec-2202 ERROR [500ErrorPage.jsp] Exception caught in 500 page com.atlassian.jira.issue.changehistory.ChangeHistoryManager.getChangeHistoriesForUser(Lcom/atlassian/jira/issue/Issue;Lcom/opensymphony/user/User;)Ljava/util/List;
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.atlassian.jira.issue.changehistory.ChangeHistoryManager.getChangeHistoriesForUser(Lcom/atlassian/jira/issue/Issue;Lcom/opensymp
hony/user/User;)Ljava/util/List;
at com.innovalog.jmwe.plugins.conditions.PreviousStatusCondition.passesCondition(PreviousStatusCondition.java:41)
at com.opensymphony.workflow.AbstractWorkflow.passesCondition(AbstractWorkflow.java:1085)
at com.opensymphony.workflow.AbstractWorkflow.passesConditions(AbstractWorkflow.java:1119)
at com.opensymphony.workflow.AbstractWorkflow.passesConditions(AbstractWorkflow.java:1143)
at com.opensymphony.workflow.AbstractWorkflow.getAvailableActionsForStep(AbstractWorkflow.java:723)
at com.opensymphony.workflow.AbstractWorkflow.getAvailableActions(AbstractWorkflow.java:115)
at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.IssueWorkflowManagerImpl.getAvailableActionIds(IssueWorkflowManagerImpl.java:140)
at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.IssueWorkflowManagerImpl.getAvailableActions(IssueWorkflowManagerImpl.java:41)
at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.IssueWorkflowManagerImpl.getSortedAvailableActions(IssueWorkflowManagerImpl.java:65)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.transitions.TransitionLinkFactory.getAvailableActions(TransitionLinkFactory.java:63)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.transitions.TransitionLinkFactory.getLinks(TransitionLinkFactory.java:52)
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.webfragment.DefaultSimpleLinkManager.getLinks(DefaultSimpleLinkManager.java:190)
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.webfragment.DefaultSimpleLinkManager.getLinksForSection(DefaultSimpleLinkManager.java:124) <+2>
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl$AbstractMultiTenantAwareInvocationHandler.invokeInternal(MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl.java:181)
at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl$MultiTenantAwareInvocationHandler.invoke(MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl.java:211)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy317.getLinksForSection(Unknown Source) <+2>
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.hostcomponents.impl.DefaultComponentRegistrar$ContextClassLoaderSettingInvocationHandler.invoke(DefaultComponentRegistrar.java:129)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy317.getLinksForSection(Unknown Source) <+2>
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.bridge.external.HostComponentFactoryBean$DynamicServiceInvocationHandler.invoke(HostComponentFactoryBean.java:154)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy317.getLinksForSection(Unknown Source)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.IssueOperationsBarUtil.getLinksForSection(IssueOperationsBarUtil.java:208)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.IssueOperationsBarUtil.getPromotedLinks(IssueOperationsBarUtil.java:105)
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.pigsty.OpsbarBeanBuilder.buildOpsbarGroup(OpsbarBeanBuilder.java:100)
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.pigsty.OpsbarBeanBuilder.build(OpsbarBeanBuilder.java:61)
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.action.IssueAction.populateIssueFields(IssueAction.java:106)
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.issuenav.action.IssueAction.doDefault(IssueAction.java:86) <+2>
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at webwork.util.InjectionUtils$DefaultInjectionImpl.invoke(InjectionUtils.java:70)
at webwork.util.InjectionUtils.invoke(InjectionUtils.java:56) <+2> (ActionSupport.java:433) (ActionSupport.java:157)
at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport.java:82) <+7> (DefaultInterceptorChain.java:39) (NestedInterceptorChain.java:31) (ChainedInterceptor.java:16) (DefaultInterceptorChain.java:35) (GenericDispatcher.java:221) (GenericDispatcher.java:150) (JiraWebworkActionDispatcher.java:153)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722) <+14> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:305) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ChainedFilterStepRunner.java:78) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (XContentTypeOptionsNoSniffFilter.java:22) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.labs.botkiller.BotKillerFilter.doFilter(BotKillerFilter.java:36) <+3> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.jira.tzdetect.IncludeResourcesFilter.doFilter(IncludeResourcesFilter.java:39) <+3> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.jira.baseurl.IncludeResourcesFilter.doFilter(IncludeResourcesFilter.java:38) <+8> (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66) (ContextFilter.java:25) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.mywork.client.filter.ServingRequestsFilter.doFilter(ServingRequestsFilter.java:37) <+20> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:77) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (AccessLogFilter.java:103) (AccessLogFilter.java:87) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (XsrfTokenAdditionRequestFilter.java:54) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (SiteMeshFilter.java:129) (SiteMeshFilter.java:77) (SitemeshPageFilter.java:124) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.labs.remoteapps.modules.permissions.ApiScopingFilter.doFilter(ApiScopingFilter.java:60) <+32> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:77) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (SecurityFilter.java:234) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (TrustedApplicationsFilter.java:98) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (BaseLoginFilter.java:169) (JiraLoginFilter.java:70) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66) (OAuthFilter.java:55) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:77) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ProfilingFilter.java:99) (JIRAProfilingFilter.java:19) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (AbstractJohnsonFilter.java:71) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:176)
at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:145)
at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:92) <+9> (UrlRewriteFilter.java:394) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (GzipFilter.java:80) (GzipFilter.java:51) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.labs.remoteapps.modules.oauth.OAuth2LOFilter.doFilter(OAuth2LOFilter.java:70) <+3> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.labs.remoteapps.util.http.bigpipe.RequestIdSettingFilter.doFilter(RequestIdSettingFilter.java:22) <+43> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66) (JWDSendRedirectFilter.java:25) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:77) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ChainedFilterStepRunner.java:78) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (AbstractCachingFilter.java:33) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (AbstractEncodingFilter.java:41) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (PathMatchingEncodingFilter.java:49) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (JiraStartupChecklistFilter.java:74) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (MultiTenantServletFilter.java:91) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ChainedFilterStepRunner.java:78) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (StandardWrapperValve.java:225) (StandardContextValve.java:123) (AuthenticatorBase.java:472) (StandardHostValve.java:168) (ErrorReportValve.java:98) (StandardEngineValve.java:118) (AccessLogValve.java:927) (CoyoteAdapter.java:407) (AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1001) (AbstractProtocol.java:585) (JIoEndpoint.java:312)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)