After Effects Camera tools sticking

While using hotkey 'C' to cycle through camera tools in Ae CC, the tool icon 'sticks' or gets stuck on a specific tool when the tool itself has actually changed to something else. e.g., while hitting 'C' enough times to pull up the zoom tool, the cursor will actually show the orbit tool.
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OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks)

This is fixed in the After Effects 2014.2 (13.2) update, which is now available.
Details here: http://adobe.ly/1IVopxh

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