A few days ago the release containing the fix was released. On contextgarden the manual under modules/t-tikz/doc/generic/pgf shows the current version 3.1.8b, but the source doesn't include the fix. I compared the source on context-garden (rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/modules/) with the zip (https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf/archive/3.1.8b.zip). In the zip file the fix is included, so I'm puzzled...