Writer 5.3 Mac - displaying "space" character?

Apparently the “Formatting Aids - Display of - Spaces” functionality stopped working since the 5.2.5 → 5.3 update on Mac / OSX. Could anyone else confirm it please? Since 5.3 I can’t seem to make LO Writer display spaces in documents as “blue dots” - they remain invisible, no matter what the preference settings are…

Same problem here – with 5.3, the option to show/hide white space characters in Writer doesn’t seem to work any longer. I hope this will be fixed soon.