checkupdates not working with pacman 7.1.0

Description:

checkupdates does not work with pacman 7.1.0

Additional info:

  • package version(s): pacman-contrib 1.13.0-2
  • config and/or log files:
checkupdates
==> ERROR: Cannot fetch updates

Steps to reproduce:

  1. update to the version above
  2. try to run checkupdates