Healing brush in 3.5RC changed?

Has anyone else noticed that the healing brush in 3.5RC now leaves a visible "circle" behind? 
It's not always noticeable ... but it's a LOT more noticeable than I ever remember any previous version of Lightroom. I've tried this on 3 different photo shoots since 3.5RC was released and I keep ending up having to avoid using the healing brush because of the visible circle it leaves behind.
I used to do most of my healing type work in LR because it was a lot faster than in Photoshop.  But now I'm afraid to use it.
I'll drop back to LR 3.4.1 for now.  But please get this information back to the developers.

I experience this circle, too (sometimes).
Yes, it's less obvious with the Healing tool.
But what is missing and what I've asked for as a feature request long ago, is a feathering option for the clone / heal tool.
The missing feathering is the reason why these circles appear.
WW

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