smplayer crashed with SIGSEGV in QNetworkAccessManager::get()

[SiggiTron]

smplayer crashed after pressing the "check for updates", during stream playback of yutube

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: smplayer 15.11.0~ds0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9.24-generic 4.4.3
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 1 17:21:19 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/smplayer
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-19 (41 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160117)
ProcCmdline: smplayer
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: smplayer
StacktraceTop:
 QNetworkAccessManager::get(QNetworkRequest const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, int, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
 QAction::triggered(bool) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5
Title: smplayer crashed with SIGSEGV in QNetworkAccessManager::get()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1542793, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Looks like a regression in Xenial, no earlier reports and checking for updates in trusty works just fine.