If your item views implements Checkable, in the framework version of the class, it will be automatically checked/unchecked.
With this compat version this needs to be done manually in the Adapter (as is shown in your sample).
I think unfortunately this cannot be fixed as the code to do that is in private methods.
However you should indicate this in the Caveats section of the readme because this may come as a surprise :) (I just spent an hour understanding what the problem was).
Thanks a lot for this lib!