Notice: Undefined index: node in node_reference_field_formatter_view()

We have a content type "Somali Page" that we want to refer to a Site Page ('English Page'). We added a dropdown node reference field to Somali Page and select a parent English Site page (About Us). When we view the Somali Page, we get these error messages:

Notice: Undefined index: node in node_reference_field_formatter_view() (line 435 of /var/www/dev.oneearthfuture.org/htdocs/sites/all/modules/contrib-stable/references/node_reference/node_reference.module).
EntityMalformedException: Missing bundle property on entity of type node. in entity_extract_ids() (line 7734 of /var/www/dev.oneearthfuture.org/htdocs/includes/common.inc).

Here is the code snippet leading up to that code

$settings = $display['settings'];
  $result = array();

  switch ($display['type']) {
    case 'node_reference_default':
    case 'node_reference_plain':
      foreach ($items as $delta => $item) {
        if ($item['access']) {
          $node = $item['node'];

Here is the Items array that code was processing:
[0] => Array
(
[nid] => 15
[access] => 1
)

As you can see, the code is looking for [node], but the array only carries a [nid].

Methinks this is a version incompatibility between References and Fields?

I can modify this pretty easily:

$nid = $item['nid'];
$node = node_load($nid);

, but do you have a patch, are you working on the issue?