Updater executer fails with InvalidItemStateException

• start a 7.8 archetype
• add a link compound to the textdocument template
• create a couple of textdocuments in /content/documents/common
• create a new groovy updater script
• execute it using the query content/documents//element[@hippo:docbase='cafebabe-cafe-babe-cafe-babecafebabe']

You'll see:
INFO Executing updater new-1
DEBUG Initializing updater
INFO No path set. Skipping path visitor.
ERROR Unexpected exception while executing updater - javax.jcr.InvalidItemStateException: Item does not exist anymore: 0ed847a9-1dd7-42b0-8f50-afd990fd5871
INFO Finished executing updater new-1

It is the uuid of one of the hippo:mirror nodes that is being iterated through.

On the console you can see the stacktrace:
javax.jcr.InvalidItemStateException: Item does not exist anymore: 0ed847a9-1dd7-42b0-8f50-afd990fd5871
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.itemSanityCheck(ItemImpl.java:116)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.perform(ItemImpl.java:90)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.getPath(ItemImpl.java:376)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.hippoecm.repository.decorating.ItemDecorator.getPath(ItemDecorator.java:89)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.onehippo.repository.update.UpdaterExecutor.executeUpdater(UpdaterExecutor.java:248)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.onehippo.repository.update.UpdaterExecutor.runQueryVisitor(UpdaterExecutor.java:217)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.onehippo.repository.update.UpdaterExecutor.execute(UpdaterExecutor.java:104)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at org.onehippo.repository.update.UpdaterExecutionModule$ExecuteUpdatersTask.executeUpdater(Up