[O] org-clock-persistence-insinuate not working anymore (25.0.5)

[Tory S. Anderson]

I've been using the following code for several months to make it easy to clock 
back in to my frequent tasks as I track my time usage:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(org-clock-persistence-insinuate)
(setq org-clock-persist t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

A few days ago I updated emacs to the dev master and my clock is no longer 
persisting; the list of recent tasks is perpetually "nil". Any ideas on how to 
fix this, or what happened?