I downloaded the debug version, but I haven't been able to reproduce the bug, but maybe this is due to the fact that the debug version is much slower.
What happens with it is that in the time frame when the normal version exibits the bug, the debug one, being slower, doesn't accept inputs and doesn't make me drag local pane files to the remote panel; since the bug is only present in the first moments after changing dirs, and the debug version doesn't make me drag anything in these moments, maybe the bug has already been corrected in the codebase used for the debug version...
Could you send me a non debug 5.8 version, so that I can test if the bug is still present or not? I think the slowness of the debug version makes it very difficult to see the bug in action, if ever it's still present...