I can confirm this.
We're all in great danger until it gets fixed! Don't let it eat you!
Its probably using
/echo -ac background Nothing to see here.
which leads me to the next question, shouldn't this print in the color of the background? after all, its the same as:
2.Changed the foregound/background color correction feature so that it no longer applies if a ^K background color is specified.
We explicitly tell it to be the color of the background.