I was just doing some experimenting trying to narrow down the issue. This instance of Windows 10 is running in a VMWare Fusion (version 10.1.3) VM. When the VM setting "Accelerate 3D Graphics - Supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3" is enabled, the issue occurred. When I disable this option the bug no longer exists in Minecraft but graphics performance suffers so greatly that the game becomes unusable. This setup all worked fine with the version of Minecraft previous to v1.6.
Yes, still an issue using Minecraft v1.9.0 on Windows 10 through VMWare Fusion version 11.0.2 (10952296) on MacOS Mojave 10.14.3