Highcharter 0.8.2 breaks 'pointPlacement'

[uvedhe]

I have built a fairly complex Polar chart which works beautifully in highcharter. Since the update however, there's a discrepancy between labels and columns. I managed to narrow down the problem to the use of plotOptions.series.pointPlacement. Here's a simplified example:

highchart() %>% 
            hc_series(list(name="Mean", type="column", 
                           data = list_parse(data.frame(x=c(1,2,3,4), y=c(20,25,17,33)))), 
                      list(name="Labels", type="scatter", 
                           data = list_parse(data.frame(x=c(1,2,3,4), y=c(15,15,15,15), 
                                                        name=c("data1","data2","data3","data4"))), 
                           dataLabels = list(enabled = TRUE, format="{point.name}"), 
                           marker = list(enabled=FALSE))) %>% 
            hc_chart(polar=TRUE) %>%
            hc_plotOptions(series = list(animation=FALSE
                                         ,pointPlacement='between'))

When enabled, the polar chart axes shift slightly such that the first column is pointing north, rather than north-east. However, the columns don't seem to move, only the axes (and strangely the labels as well) seem to shift, while the columns themselves remain in place.

pointPlacement removed:

vs. enabled (labels and axes shift but columns don't):

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