I don't know if this was always here, I think it might've been, but light will leak through stair blocks on the solid side. If the full side is facing you, where it meets another stair block, some light will leak through.
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Could you potentially provide some screenshots which show this issue?
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Duplicate of MC-12558
This is not a bug. Stairs are consider transparent blocks and will do this.