[bug report] Making selection with pen tool causes 'jittery' edge

When I use the pen tool to create a path, and then make a selection from it and select inverse and delete the background, the result is a very un-even edge not the clean resullt you would expect, however if I make a mask from the same selection it looks fine.
Steps to recreate
1. Draw a simple path with the pen tool
2. Make a selection from the path, with 0 feather and anti alias turned on
3. Inverse selection (optional, same thing happens if you don't inverse)
4. Delete the rest of the image
5. The edge of the image now has an uneven, jittery edge
compared to mask
5. Undo the delete
6. Go to Channel Pallette, and make a mask from the selection
7. Edge of the mask should be clean like you would expect
You can exaggerate the jittery effect by adding feather the the path selection

Ok please Delete this I've sorted it. The blending mode had jumped to disolve.... but I 100% didn't change it to this myself, I wasn't even in the layer pallette at the time

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